1996 – (a) Poetry should be made by all! From hypertext utopias to cooperative net-projects - Heiko Idensen
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From hypertext utopias to cooperative net-projects
By Heiko Idensen
The explosive expansion of the WWW changed the use of hypertext-programs and concepts: from artistic and academic experiments in the seventies to a new kind of network-hypermedia. But what happend to the utopias of hypertext by the way? - Did all readers become writers? - Are avantgarde techniques in literature and art now available for all users? - What about poetics/ethics within networks?
Visualizations and dramatizations of data presentations, simulation techniques, desktop publishing, desktop video, the hypertext revolution of the WWW ... make the screen as a virtual surface the favourite place of cultural exchange processes: on screen thinking - writing and reading on the net.
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The post-modern technologies and sciences leave human beings behind as nomads hooked up to the network of telematic multimedial systems: culturally imprinted by the alphabetic book-culture, informed, seduced, and emotionally fed by audiovisual mass media, mentally stimulated, fascinated and inspired to speculations and visions by the new information technologies. The myths of the text society finite text, authorship, legitimization in the context of "great stories" (ideologies) collapse in the interfaces of the information media, in the circulation of endlessly interchangeable information particles: texts, pictures, sounds are floating through information channels ... networking as an art of cross connections, of being on the way, of being everywhere. ... nomadic interwoven cultural techniques arise ...
Everything can be connected to everything! The classic separations between production and reception (e.g. between author, text, and reader or of code, sender, and receiver) will be abolished in favour of a text-network- conception:
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Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/19991108225104/http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/zkp/hypertxt.txt