Transmitters of culture

To defend the book just for the form of the codex book is to focus on the box and not the contents.

Publishing does not lack, after all, for examples of industries and bureaucracies that have trained themselves around a particular technology and perished with it. Why should the E-book share this fate? If we fail to understand the expressive environment of our time, we will have failed in our duty as transmitters of culture, whether we think the culture to be preserved consists of Dead White Males with their holy works...

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Linked materials ans intertextuality

(...) Books offer an obvious example of explicit hypertextuality in nonelectronic form.

(...) Take Joyce's Ulysses for an example. If one looks, say, at the Nausicaa section, in which Bloom watches Gerty McDowell on the beach, one notes that Joyce's text here alludes or refers (the terms we usually employ) to many other texts or phenomena that one can treat as texts, including the Nausicaa section of the Odyssey, the advertisements and articles in the women's magazines that suffuse and inform Gerty's thoughts, facts about contemporary Dublin and the Catholic Church, and material that relates to other passages within the novel. Again, a hypertext presentation of the novel links this section not only to the kinds of materials mentioned but also to other works in Joyce's career, critical commentary, and textual variants. Hypertext here permits one to make explicit, though not necessarily intrusive, the linked materials that an educated reader perceives surrounding it. (Landow)

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Modalities of work in progress

Multimedia as a concept doesn't make sense to me because I have always been involved with electronics and redefinitions of modalities of work.

Ajay Naidu

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