hypertext

Zuzana Husárová and Nick Montfort up the ante for experimental writing by examining the category of "shuffle literature." What is shuffle literature? Simply put: books that are meant to be shuffled. Using formal reading of narrative and themes, but also a material reading of construction and production, Husárová and Montfort show that there are many writing practices and readerly strategies associated with this diverse category of literature.

Joseph Tabbi reads both the book and the hypertext version of Strickland's True North.

Paul Harris explores IN.S.OMNIA's technographies.

Tempering the myth of global variety, David Golumbia processes the dominance of English in digital environments - and a highly standardized English at that.

The parallels (and oppositions) between hypertext and AI are brought out in section five.