Different Gestures

The criticism of Kwinter's essay, in the more traditional section of this hypertext, questions premises and suggests ways in which hypertext might create a different kind of writing and reading by emphasizing rather than refusing the qualities of digital media.

In this group of notes my aim is again to locate Kwinter's opinions and arguments amid larger spaces so that the issue is not fully defined by his alternatives. But here I try to create those larger spaces by parody and almost-repetition by abrupt juxtapositions and changes of voice.

These are brief attempts at different textual gestures using links and repetitions. This section is relatively self-contained, with only a few links in or out of the field.