From: dmwri1-AT-student.monash.edu.au
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 17:28:57 +1000
Subject: Re: All's quiet on the methodological front...



> real fast because once again this is more bait than substance -- but
> beginning with the Futurist we get a texts that are under pressure--
> concret poetry-- the libre parole of futurism -- the the expreinments in
> intertextuality  of DADA etc.  theise are texts that do not correspond to
> the notion of the literary which post-structuralism because of its base in
> comp lit does not pursue-- these are text that are neither the producof the
> speed of war that Varillo describes nor the media sign of Baudrillard.
> instead they represent the presence and tradition of the hypertext.   I'm
> tired and have been at it too long this week to e;ucidate much more .  Much
> of this is premised on the work of Nicholas Zurbrugg and Friedrich
> KIttler-- more latter
> SAUL
> 
Tres interessant, but are hypertexts the only sorts of 20th C texts? 
That is, aren't there other non-hypertexts that are still 
distinctively 20th C?

Anyway, isn't _The Postcard_ a hypertext?

Bait if ever I wrote any.

gilligan.