Thursday, March 26, 2015

Hypertext...who are you?

After reading Landow and Deleuze and Guattari's text I learned quite a bit of information. For instance, I learned that hypertext is a fundamentally intertextual system. It has the capacity to emphasize intertextually in a way that page bound text in books cannot. I honestly feel as if hypertext goes well into the change of generation. Since many people prefer to click links instead of flip pages it was a good idea for hypertext to expand. Scholarly articles have began to expand into the non electric form. This becomes more accessible for the people who may need it and do not have to worry about the scholarly articles being torn or destroyed. Landow also said that hypertext provides an infinitely recenterable system whose provisional point of focus depends on the leader. The leader also becomes a truly active reader. In my opinion, this is an important and positive affect of hypertext because you want people to become more in tune with what they are reading. It would increase the reader's comprehension skills and the awareness of the content. I feel as if hypertext makes the people actually want to read mainly because the author creates the text and the reader keeps recreating it . 
      This can create a whole new text everytime a different person reads it and clicks in the links because the links will direct them to certain pages. This is a very interesting conept of reading because we can be told to read "The Hungry Caterpillar" but with it being a hypertextual piece it will allow different people to read the story in a different way. This explains why hypertext transforms any document that has more than one link into a transient center. 
      Hypertext teaches us that we can start off with one thing and end up with another. Hypertext transform and changes . However, rhizomes establish connections between semiotic chains,organizations of power and circumstances  relative to the arts . Deleuze and Guattari's gives us an example that rats are rhizomes. Unpacking that example I can see why that is so because rats do not must appear they come somewhere and then it's the drainage and sewer and the sewer leads to all the water supply in the world. In a way rats are symbolic for the semiotic chains.  
Meta pictures and hypertext connects with class because they both are dependent on the audience, who uses them and how they use it. If these two aspects are being used in the for, of poverty or wealth for that matter, it speaks on its class. 

2 comments:

  1. Hey Kelshay I also learned a ton while reading both Landow, Deleuze and Guatorri. I too wish that more people were interested in reading scholarly articles, that would link them to other articles. But you are right. With the evolution of technology and the way things are moving, I feel that in the future most text will be read on screen rather than a page. I think the greatest example of an online hypertext could be Twitter. Most post that people leave are links to articles, news stories and much more. I think the great hypertext could be hashtags. They are there to link the reader to other pages that have a common bond. This can open up the reader to thousands of text rather and just one. It is sad to say that people aren’t reading books anymore. The easy access that computers allow us to reach out to is infinite. People these days just want the gist amount of information to feel like they know whats going on. I feel like to really understand a concept like hypertext or metapicture, one would have to read scholarly articles. If the author is able to present an idea, that the reader feels involved in, the reader is going to want to continue reading. It like reading a fictional story. The reader wants to know what happens next. Although I am a fan of “The Hungry Caterpillar” I don’t really see it being a hypertextual piece. What is it in The Hungry Caterpillar, that links us to something new? Anyway great blog, I really enjoyed reading it and getting a different perspective on these theories

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  2. Hi, Kelshay your post really helped have a better understanding of what Landow was saying about how hypertext trasnsforms and shifts with the reader. Also what you said about how, " hypertext provides an infinitely recenterable system whose provisional point of focus depends on the leader," I feel that is very true because the reader becomes more aware of what they are reading and it allows them to better comprehend the text. It's also interesting how he says that, "in the novel itself, nonparticipating third persons' are not represented in any way," (36). This makes me wonder if he is saying that the reader, is not participating? You helped me have a clear understanding of this article, good job!

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