aarseth

Nick Montfort reviews Espen J. Aarseth's Cybertext, which stakes out a post-hypertextual terrain for literary criticism and practice. Interactive excerpts from some of the cybertexts that Aarseth discusses are included.

In response to Nick Montfort's review of Cybertext, N. Katherine Hayles coins an alternative term, cyber|literature.

Considering hypertext as a subset of cybertexts, Markku Eskelinen offers seven examples of how to implement Espen Aarseth's seven-fold typology.

A reluctant response to Markku Eskelinen's "Cybertext Theory: What An English Professor Should Know Before Trying," where Hayles discusses her admiration for Espen Aarseth's work... and the limitations within it she has perceived.

Entering the cyberdebates, Scott Rettberg moves beyond technique and proposes a more generative approach to hypertext, in which an author's intention and poetic purpose have a role.