Displaced onto the chip

What are the relations between the formal and generic properties of hypertext fiction and the technical features of the medium and its organizational units: the node, the byte, the packet?

What we have seen in the prophecies of the "death" or "end" of the book has been the end of the belief in the book as repository and transmitter of definitive cultural value; that sense of value has in part been displaced onto the chip, the database, the electronic archive, and their framing mechanism, the screen.

Hypertext narratives, though, complicate this sense of displacement, for they indicate the extent to which literature is by no means an antiquated cultural form relegated to the obsolescent spheres of print—it has instead virtually transformed itself and this course will investigate how it has done so.

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