New writing technology approaches the origin of langage

A significant feature of hypertext environments is their capacity for inclusion, their construction of a vast and necessarily unfinished order of documents striving to represent the knowledge (and the agon) of a discipline.

My former hypertext phonereader/metabole - hypertext essay - was based upon 20 different topics.

This one hypertextopia/metabole focuses on three philosophers and three of their personal philosophical principles:

1. Walter Benjamin and his replacement of Plato's theory of forms and Ideas by a theory of linguistics and textual writing. Paradoxically, new writing technology approaches the origin of langage.
2. Martin Heidegger and his latest ontology of permanent mutation: at last, Being has to be metabolized.
3. Cornelius Castoriadis and his creating "social imaginary signification" that cannot be deduced from rational or real, empirical elements or specific forces.

As yet, no boundless writing space exists, so I have had to try to create my own simulacrum of a textual domain. I have tried to exploit hypertext's capaciousness by offering extended passages from some of authors I cite. The current state of copyright law, however, precludes posting works in their entirety (and frankly, scanning or typing that much stuff would have been too tedious and time-consuming anyway). I have, therefore, included less than 10% of any given work to comply with the "fair use" provisions of the law.

Sometimes, all you will want is a standard bibliographical reference -- just enough to enable you can to get the book or article and read it in its entirety, without my noisome interjections, distracting comments, and distorting editorial decisions. Simple references to page numbers will occur in the text and the full bibliographic information will occur on the list of works cited (a link should take you directly from an author's name to the bibliography). An extended passage from the cited work is available whenever a citation is associated with this symbol )°°°°°°°°°°°°°°) .

There are approximately 11658 nodes and 180.000 links in this hypertext essay.

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Remediation

Bolter argues that digital hypertext is the remediation of the printed book.

Published between the first and second editions of Writing Space, Remediation: Understanding New Media (coauthored by Richard Grusin, MIT Press, 1999) focuses on the relationship between visual digital expressions (such as computer games and the World Wide Web) and earlier media forms (such as film and television). Bolter argues that digital forms both borrow from and seeks to surpass earlier forms, and he gives this process the name “remediation.”


With Blair MacIntyre, Maribeth Gandy, and Petra Schweitzer, bolter is also reexamining Benjamin's concept of aura. He wants to see how aura (or the decay of aura) manifests itself in new media forms, such as augmented and mixed reality. His current paper is entitled: “New Media and the Permanent Crisis of Aura.”


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Allegorical elements

An allegory is an abstract representation of principals or ideas through the use of characters, figures or events. It is also the classification for a creative work, such as a story or a play, which makes use of allegory. In most cases, allegory is the term used (rather than metaphor) when the symbolic representations reflect an aspect of human behavior or values.

The term allegory originated from the Greek term allegoria (speaking otherwise). It came into common use through plays, generally religious, which would act out human frailties in order to teach a lesson. Characters (often taking the form of animals) would actually be named for their representation. The betrayer would be named “betrayal”, the evil character named “evil” the faithful character named “faith”. The characters had few, if any, characteristics beyond their representation of a concept. These plays were publicly called allegories and were performed at religious gatherings.

Allegories took many forms over the years, such as fables and parables. The story of the tortoise and the hare is an allegory, expressing the belief that the slow and steady will always defeat the quick and prideful in the end.

While the old-time allegories were very direct in showing the audience what represented what, over time allegories became more subtle. In Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, for example, the white whale is seen as an allegory for evil. In the Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, the fight clubs are an allegory for modern man’s repressed primal instincts and the need to express them.

Most novels and plays contain some allegorical elements. Symbolic representations of emotions or dilemmas are such a common concept that often writers include them without even realizing they are doing so. Of course, the most masterful of writers are very conscious of the allegories they are creating, even when the allegories seem subtle to the audience.

by John Hewitt

For more information read:

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition by C. S. Lewis

Allegories of Reading by Paul De Man

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

L'origine du langage

L'origine du langage


Walter Benjamin conçoit le langage comme l'héritage de la faculté de percevoir des ressemblances.

Il serait ainsi l'application principale de la faculté mimétique. Il constituerait en somme le milieu dans lequel les choses se rencontrent, non plus comme originellement dans l'esprit du Grand Poète mais maintenant dans leurs essences, leurs substances les plus fugitives et les subtiles, "dans leurs parfums mêmes" dit Benjamin, et entrent en relation les unes avec les autres (mimesis).

C'est en somme à l'écriture et toute son histoire que le Grand Poète a abandonné dans le temps ses anciens pouvoirs.

Il y a donc comme une sorte de conception "créationniste", onomatopéique de l'origine du langage chez Walter Benjamin, sans que toutefois les ressemblances originelles aient une quelconque ressemblance sensible avec tout ce qui est... C'est là un moment très problématique de la théorie du langage chez Benjamin. Il rapproche ce faisant son approche de la théorie des formes et des essences chez Platon.

Pour autant, Benjamin s'oppose aux théories conventionalistes du langage. Tout comme il n'accepte pas les conceptions idéalistes et même mystiques du langage pour lesquelles les mots et les choses finissent par s'identifier.

Il s'agit avant tout pour lui de retrouver le langage des choses: saisir par une nouvelle écriture et une nouvelle pratique de la lecture les constellations dans lesquelles se révèlent une vérité plus profonde que celle que l'on accorde habituellement à la "connaissance" de la chose. C'est ici tout l'objet de la "critique" au sens que l'auteur de "La tâche du traducteur" donne à ce terme.

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What is remediation in hypertextuality?

Bolter argues that digital hypertext is the remediation of the printed book.

Published between the first and second editions of Writing Space, Remediation: Understanding New Media (coauthored by Richard Grusin, MIT Press, 1999) focuses on the relationship between visual digital expressions (such as computer games and the World Wide Web) and earlier media forms (such as film and television). Bolter argues that digital forms both borrow from and seeks to surpass earlier forms, and he gives this process the name “remediation.”

With Blair MacIntyre, Maribeth Gandy, and Petra Schweitzer, bolter is also reexamining Benjamin's concept of aura. He wants to see how aura (or the decay of aura) manifests itself in new media forms, such as augmented and mixed reality. His current paper is entitled: “New Media and the Permanent Crisis of Aura.”

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Wholeness and fragmentation

A concern with issues of wholeness and fragmentation, along with a focus on the material aspects of cultural media, identifies an important area of contact between the work of cultural critic Walter Benjamin and that of Lukacs.

In the important essay "The Storyteller," Benjamin argues in a mode reminiscent of Lukacs's narrative of gradual historical fragmentation that in the modern world the ability to tell meaningful stories is rapidly becoming a lost art. Storytelling for Benjamin is first and foremost a means of conveying advice for dealing with "real" life, but he suggests, writing in the tumultuous days of post-World War I Germany, that the modern world no longer makes sense. "Reality" itself is thus increasingly problematic, and there is no longer any meaningful advice to give. "The art of storytelling," he writes, "is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out". Benjamin suggests that events in the modern world (particularly World War I) have led to a general devaluation of human experience:

"For never has experience been contradicted more thoroughly than strategic experience by tactical warfare, economic experience by inflation, bodily experience by mechanical warfare, moral experience by those in power". And if experience is no longer meaningful, then it follows that the exchange of experiences in meaningful ways (the fundamental requirement of effective storytelling) is no longer possible".

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