Table of Contents for Chapter One. Hypertext and Critical Theory

The Definition of Hypertext and Its History as a Concept

• History of the Concept of Hypertext
• Annotation in a Print Text
• Roland Barthes and the Writerly Text
• Reading and Writing in a Hypertext Environment

Other Convergences: Intertextuality, Multivocality, and De-Centeredness

• Jacques Derrida: Textual Openness and Assemblage
• Hypertext and Intertextuality
• Mikhail Bakhtin: Hypertext and Multivocality
• Hypertext and De-Centering

Vannevar Bush and the Idea of Hypertext

• The Memex
• Bush's Memex as Poetic Machine

Virtuality

• Virtual Texts, Virtual Authors, and Literary Computing
• Jean Baudrillard and Digitality

The Network Paradigm

• The Nonlinear Model of the Network in Current Critical Theory
• The Network in Marxist Theory

Hypertext in Context of Earlier Information Regimes

• Cause or Convergence, Influence or Confluence?
• Analogues to the Gutenberg Revolution
• Predictions

Bibliography

• Printed Sources Cited in Text
• Other Printed Materials
• Electronic Materials

Updates, Related Materials, and Plans for Hypertext 2.0

• So What's Has Happened Since 1992?
• The Death of Intermedia and the Migration to Storyspace
• Webs Created by Students Since the Publication of Hypertext
• World Wide Web Versions of Materials Described in Hypertext
• Hypertext as Urban Paradigm: the Kasimir-Migrayrou Pompidou Center Project
• Hypertext in Hypertext
• Hyper/Text/Theory
• Translations of Hypertext

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