New rhetorics would have to describe hypertext linkage not in terms of positive constructions or artifacts—arrival/departure or cause/effect—but as Terry Harpold suggests, in terms of absence and negativity—gaps, openings, and fissures .
In short, coming to terms with constructive hypertext might entail seeing the text not in Carlson's terms as a "context" that cements fragments but rather as itself a fragment of context, not a functional unity but as the limit case of the unifying function. If exploratory hypertext is the place where things come magically together (Only connect...), then perhaps constructive hypertext is the space in which things fall apart, flying outward in lines of deterritorialization.
(see Moulthrop)
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