ORGANIZATION OF THE POSTMODERN PROGRAMME AT SIXTH AVENUE
Key Concept: Contemporary Critical
Theory and Technology converge in hypertext. That is, the form of hypertext
and the substance of postmodernism illustrate and reinforce one another.
GEORGE LANDOW is the source of this key concept.
Envision THE PROGRAMME as SIX LEVELS of information. At the highest and
broadest level, information comes into THE PROGRAMME through interactive
communication from readers via The Mailbox. The levels descend
then to the bottom level, that of the Sixth Avenue setting, as follows.
LEVEL SIX: Communication from readers through The Mailbox.
LEVEL FIVE: Information from the World Wide Web.
LEVEL FOUR: Information from bibliographic references.
LEVEL THREE: Information indigenous to THE PROGRAMME. This includes
the in-house conceptual framework for examining the postmodern. Embraced in
the conceptual framework are the following:
- The Genesis Document, Part One and Part Two.
- The Floating "Final" Formulation.
- The Table Talks.
- Essays.
- Critical theory: The Ten Commandments of the Postmodern.
- Praxis: the relationship of theory to practice in postmodernity.
- Creative expression: a definition.
LEVEL TWO: The first-person plural Persona of THE PROGRAMME, which
includes Able, Baker, Charlie, and Bodgers.
LEVEL ONE: The Setting at Sixth Avenue, rooted in woods by Donny Brook,
with squirrels romping in snow and the presence of the shades of villagers
past.
INTEGRATION: HYPERTEXT integrates and interrelates all six levels
through links.
THE RESULT: An unhierarchical, rhizomatic, self-reflexive construct
that can expand and link without closure in pursuit of an understanding of
postmodernity.
GRAFFITI ON THE SIDEWALK AT SIXTH AVENUE:
Homo Ludens Roaming the Avenue--
Not Dangerous to Sightseers!
9 March 1996; Updated 7 April 1996
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