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  1. May 2016
  2. Oct 2015
    1. hypertext presents a radically divergent technology, interactive and polyvocal, favoring a plurality of discourses over definitive utterance and freeing the reader from domination by the author

      Its fascinating to know that hype is always around... (Even in the 90's)

    1. I will be writing about a series of concepts I’ve been developing called the “simples” of digital literature. Each of these simples describes some element of the deep structure of the text/algorithm interaction inherent in all digital textuality — those places where the mathematical underpinnings of text as it appears on the screen (since there is always something at work keeping the text you are reading now visible) and how artists exploit them to create unique effects.

      This - this is key. That relationship between the underlying the structure and the visible experience. This acts to define Electronic Literature. its the process-oriented nature of the text.

    1. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary Histor

      Key - love this book. 'Distant reading' is the literary theorists approach to technological affordances, and it has a great deal to say to artists and creators.