Reading practises

George Landow predicted radical changes in reading practices with an impact not only on literature but on philosophy too.

The prediction has been slow to be verified and has been criticized by empirical and psychological studies. Now, hypertext theory can be compared to the phenomenology of reading linear literary text, with particular attention paid to the role played by the notion of a text, work or ‘whole’ which is constructed or produced during the course of reading.

The active and engaged reading predicted by hypertext theory is available in reading linear literary text, and to a higher degree than in reading hypertext, and consider ways in which the kinds of reading process which occur in reading literature can be generalized to reading for other higher philosophical purposes.

Finally, we must today speculate as to the range of online technologies that could be used to encourage these reading processes, and propose an alternative online reading space: hypertextual.net

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