(Last updated 16 March 1997)
This personal project lies outside the formal academic program of Ursinus College.
In an on-line hypertext format, THE PROGRAMME attempts to record my ongoing thinking about postmodernism. That thinking involves reading and notating books and articles, reading and linking to postmodern material on the World Wide Web, writing dialogues called Table Talks , and writing essays. It also involves compiling selected poems from my own work that seem marked by postmodern traits.
On the contents page, below this "Welcome", I link directly to several of the most recently added items to THE PROGRAMME. These "newest" items are followed by a table of contents; it displays the structure of THE PROGRAMME and provides links to the parts.
A working assumption is that the medium of hypertext, in which the project is rendered, illustrates important traits of the content of postmodernism itself. The links among files, therefore, have an essential role in the thought process underlying the project.
You will encounter the shadowy semblance of a virtual "institute" in which "we" pursue "the programme" at Sixth Avenue. Please pardon the attempt at drollery and archness. It helped me to get started.
The "Genesis Documents" found in The Argument (Evolving) exhibit at best a beginner's grasp of postmodern discussion. I retain them to memorialize the starting plant from which the rhizomatic expansion of the project grew over time.
A Final Floating Formulation, linked to The Argument (Evolving), pretends to have the final word at the current stage of thinking in THE PROGRAMME. It does not. But I leave it in place for whatever interest it may have.
An overview of the levels of information that you encounter when browsing through THE PROGRAMME supplements the view of it obtained from the contents page.
Charles Jamison and David Mill of the Myrin Library staff at Ursinus College have my thanks for leading me into hypertext. Without their friendly help, this project would not even have been thought of. Steve Kneizys, former director of academic computing, was equally helpful. Stevo's surgical procedures on the guts of my office computer made it part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
Thanks for your interest.
A small excursion through some links. This was used in a demonstration on 2 April 1996. It will give a newcomer a sense of the operation of THE PROGRAMME.