Instructor:  Chris Funkhouser
funkhouser@tesla.njit.edu
cfunk@megahertz.njit.edu
spring 1998    njit

required reading:

Espen Aarseth, Cybertext:  Perspectives in Ergodic Literature
Theodor Nelson, Literary Machines 93.1
Michael Joyce, Of Two Minds:  Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics

suggested:  Ilana Snyder, hypertext:  the electronic labyrinth

• students should also read Chapter 1/Introduction of Aarseth for 1/27
• responses to Cayley due by e-mail @ noon 1/27

 

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• students should complete Cybertext:  Perspectives in Ergodic Literature, and carefully examine Aarseth's WWW site.
• responses to Aarseth due by e-mail @ noon 2/3

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supplemental texts, 2-3-98:  Home Page of Ted Nelson Ted Nelson and Xanadu  Nelson's Xanadu Project Xanadu Online INTERVIEW with Ted Nelson The Curse of Xanadu, by Gary Wolf Where the World Wide Web Went Wrong L E C T U R E   1:     C y b e r t e x t  F o r e b e a r :    T e d   N e l s o n  
• students should complete Theodor Nelson's Literary Machines 93.1
• responses due by e-mail @ noon 2/10

 

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• selected readings from Of Two Minds:  Introduction (pp. 1-15]; Definition for Hypertext/Hypermedia (pp. 19-29]; "Siren Shapes" (pp. 39-59)
• Read work attached to links above.
• responses due by e-mail @ noon 2/17
• be thinking about correspondence between reading assignments for mid-term project

• VISIBLE LANGUAGE 30.2 authors
• Visible Language 30.2 Webliography
• Cybertext Literature, Chapter One
• Review of Visible Language by C. Funkhouser