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Weekly Schedule and Required Reading
Week 1 Introduction to the subject
Week 2 What is hypertext 1? History/Techniques
Reading:
Vannevar Bush, As We May Think <http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush-all.shtml>
Johnson, Steven, Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms
the Way We Create and Communicate, SanFransisco: Harper Edge, 1997,
Chapter 4, "Links", pp. 106 -137.
http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/421273.pdf
Week 3 What is hypertext 2? Poetics/Aesthetics
Reading:
Grusin, R., "What is an Electronic Author? Theory and the Technological
Fallacy" in Markley, R. (ed), Virtual Realities and Their Discontents,
Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1996
http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/420932.pdf
Aarseth, Espen. "No Sense of An Ending: Hypertext Aesthetics"
in Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore:Johns
Hopkins Press, 1997 pp.76-96
Week 4 Knowledge and Representation?...Knowledge AS Representation
Reading:
Ong, W., "Print, Space and Closure" in Orality and Literacy:
The Technologising of the Word, London: Routledge, 1995, pp. 117-
139
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Manguel, Alberto, "The Shape of the Book" in A History of Reading,
London: Penguin Books, 1997 pp. 125 - 147
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http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/731862_pp135-145,147.pdf
Week 5 Precursors to Electronic Writing
Reading:
Tofts, D., Hyperlogic, the avantgarde, and other intransitive acts"
in Parallax: Essays on Art, Technology and Culture, Interface Books,
1999 pp.16-28
http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/420548.pdf
And have a look at:
Taylor, M. & Saarinen, E., Imagologies: Media Philosophy, Routledge,
1994
McLuhan, M. & Fiore, Q., The Medium is the Massage, Simon and
Schuster, 1967
Books on Counter Reserve
EASTER BREAK
No Classes over Easter
Week 6 Project Consultations Practical extension classes
This week is set aside to ensure that students are coping with the technology.
There will be "catch up" classes in HTML and Paint Shop Pro.
There are no lectures this week.
Week 7 Rhetoric, Media/Mediation and hypertext
Reading:
Tofts, D. & Mc Keich, M., Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture,
21C Books, Interface, 1997 pp. 72 - 74 (or better yet, the whole of Chapter
3!)
http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/416213_pp72-78.pdf
Ulmer, G., Heuretics: The Logic of Invention, Baltimore, John Hopkins
U.P., 1994 pp. 28 -31
http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/416066.pdf
Week 8 Writing with Pictures Guest Lecture
Reading:
Miles, A., "Vlog 2.1"
http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/
Week 9 Hypertext and Argumentation
Reading:
Douglas, Jane Yellowlees. "Will the Most Reflexive Relativist Please
Stand Up: Hypertext, Argument, and Relativism." Page to Screen:
Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era. Ed. Ilana Snyder. London:
Routledge, 1998. 144-162.
Available at:http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~jdouglas/AllenUnwin.pdf
(Don't be confused by the different title on this PDF - it's the same
piece as that in the book above)
Week 10 Hypertext Fiction
Reading:
Landow, G., "Reconfiguring Narrative" in Hypertext 2.0: The
Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, Baltimore:
John Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. 178-218
http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/731811_pp178-191.pdf
http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/731811_pp192-205.pdf
http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/731811_pp206-218.pdf
Consulting Week No classes this week
Week 11 Halflives: An exposition on the creation of one hypertext
Reading:
Visit the Halflives site
http://halflives.adc.rmit.edu.au
Rodman, G.B. "Making a Better Mystery Out Of History", Meanjin,
Winter 1993, V.52. No.2.l pp. 295-312
http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/406136.pdf
Week 12 Project Consultation
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