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By Ana Castello, 6 December, 2017
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Steven Shaviro reviews Shelley Jackson’s Half Life, the first print-based novel by a pioneering hypertextualist.

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By Daniele Giampà, 12 November, 2014
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In this interview, Carlo Cinato, author of the hypertext novel L’uomo senza cappello e la donna con le scarpe grigie (The man without a hat and the woman with grey shoes) and curator of the blog Parolata, explains how he started getting interested in electronic literature and how he conceived his novel. Through the study of hypertextual and non sequencial books in printed form he discovered a new way of writing which was adaptable to the technical possibilities of the web and the ebooks. According to Cinato there are analogies between literary works of the print tradition and the digital tradition, but in particular the latter are characterised by the possibility of making a leap inside the text. The hypertextual structure alters the role of the reader, the materiality of the text, the way of reading and the way to write for an author. Moreover Cinato sees the writing of the novel as an experiment. It was an occasion to write by using one of the seven hypertext links he has pinpointed. In the end he explains in which way the hypertextual structure changes the way of reading and how it can be installed also in ebooks.

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In questa intervista Carlo Cinato, autore del romanzo ipertestuale L’uomo senza cappello e la donna con le scarpe grigie e curatore del blog Parolata, spiega come è nato l’interesse per la letteratura elettronica e di come ha concepito il suo romanzo. Attraverso lo studio di romanzi cartacei con strutture narrative ipertestuali e non sequenziali ha scoperto una nuova forma di scrittura che si adatta alle possibilità tecniche di internet e degli ebook. Secondo Cinato esistono varie analogie tra opere letterarie della tradizione a stampa e quella digitale, ma in particolare quest’ultima si contraddistingue per la possibilità di fare dei salti all’interno del testo. La struttura ipertestuale altera la il ruolo del lettore, la materialità del testo, il modo di lettura e il modo di scrivere di un autore. La stesura del romanzo è stata anche la prima occasione per provare a scrivere utilizzando uno dei sette tipi di link ipertestuali individuati da Cinato. Infine spiega come la struttura ipertestuale cambia la lettura e di come possa essere inserita anche negli ebook.

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Quote from author Andreas Okopenko: An incredibly beautiful April day I took the train to a radio drama conclusion to Saarbrücken. Symptoms of early spring, moved me (work and play and boredom and desire and relationship ly) house in the countryside, the opportunities here and there and everywhere. look around to participate, mitzuleben, but also the impossibility of all this really possible, or even to do the same so dissolved as excited as sentimental mood this morning, I decided my first novel writing: a strange novel as possible .. orgy experienced journey route I selected, but (due to the slower pre-drawing of the objects, due to the greater potential for development of the bias) is part of the Danube as a vehicle, a ship One of the main ideas was almost obsessive: the reader will be able to play the options structure in the world: in this or get out of the city from here or there weiterzuverzweigen or it remains the Danube on the main line of action may as a form presented itself immediately the alphabetic series of small portions of the inner and outer life. Add a folder indicating arrows from one article to many others, but they can be considered as a real encyclopedia optional or ignored.

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Quote from author Andreas Okopenko: Eines unglaublich schönen Apriltages fuhr ich mit der Eisenbahn zu einem Hörspielabschluß nach Saarbrücken. Die Symptome des beginnenden Frühjahrs rührten mich, die (Arbeit und Spiel und Langeweile und Wunsch und Beziehung bergenden) Häuser in der Landschaft, die Möglichkeiten, hier und da und dort herumzuschauen, einzutreten, mitzuleben, und doch auch die Unmöglichkeit, all dieses Mögliche wirklich oder gar gleich zu tun. In der so gelösten wie aufgekratzten wie sentimentalen Stimmung dieses Vormittags entschloß ich mich, meinen ersten Roman zu schreiben: den Roman einer so seltsam als Möglichkeiten-Orgie erlebten Reise. Als Route wählte ich aber (wegen des langsameren Vorbeiziehens der Objekte, wegen der größeren Chance für das Entstehen einer Reisebefangenheit) eine Donaustrecke, als Fahrzeug ein Schiff. Einer der wichtigsten Einfälle kam fast zwanghaft: der Leser müßte Gelegenheit haben, die Möglichkeiten-Struktur der Welt nachzuspielen: in dieser oder jener Stadt auszusteigen, sich von hier oder dort aus weiterzuverzweigen oder aber auf der Donau am Hauptstrang der Handlung bleiben zu können. Als Form bot sich augenblicklich die alphabetische Reihung kleiner Portionen von Innen- und Außenleben an, ein LEXIKON mit Hinweispfeilen von einem Artikel zu manchen anderen, die aber wie in einem echten Lexikon wahlweise beachtet oder ignoriert werden könnten.

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By Helen Burgess, 20 June, 2012
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Highways of the Mind explores the history of the interstate highway system and its transformative impact on the physical and cultural landscapes of America. Beginning with the 1939 New York World’s Fair andtracing the development of America’s automotive culture, Highways of the Mind combines interactivemultimedia features with original scholarly content to provide new insight into the figure of thesuperhighway as a metaphor for social progress through technology. We show that thesuperhighway is a compelling 20th-century metaphor that reveals the complex nature of humankind'sfascination with technologies of transportation, from our fantasies of techno-utopianism to ouranxieties about the disappearance of nature and the dehumanizing impact of modern technology.

A scholarly multimedia work exploring the rhetorics and cultural impact of the American superhighway system in urban planning, urban/environmental criticism, ecological studies, infrastructural studies and science fiction.

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Our highways are haunted.