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POSTMODERN REFERENCES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
POSTMODERN REFERENCES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
THE POSTMODERN PROGRAMME AT SIXTH AVENUE came into being without a measurement
of the
power of the World Wide Web. The WWW was just becoming available to us as THE
PROGRAMME got started. The project could have had a viable life without the
WWW. With it, the project took on a dimension undreamed of at the start. We
recall the excitement of making our first link to a major web site on
postmodernism; it was the Deleuze & Guattari page at the University of
Virginia. Compare this discovery to that of Lewis & Clark finding the
Columbia River source. The next exciting experience came when we linked our
project with a single string of type on screen to that horde. We continued to
"crawl the web" (infelicitous as the phrase may be). We established a
heterogeneous gaggle of links. As the excitement of sheer discovery diminished,
we expected to
weave the links between THE PROGRAMME locally and the WWW more meaningfully.
Our progress toward that goal proved to be limited. For one thing, it depended
upon our weaving of postmodern themes and concepts together across links in the
PROGRAMME as well as on the web; and our reach exceeded our grasp. Second, we
discovered that web links can be short-lived. A link to a rich site could go
cold and leave a gaping hole in our pattern of ideas. Indeed, while we check
periodically, some of the links below may have died without our knowledge.
(Please email us and let us know if you find cold links so that we can stay
current.)
In the early days of the PROGRAMME in 1995 and early 1996, we felt the
potential power of the WWW to change fundamental strategies
of
studying and doing scholarship. We constantly bear in mind George Landow's
explanation of the convergence of
postmodern critical theory and electronic information technologies as we read
material on the WWW in close temporal and spatial proximity to texts of our own and others in our
growing bibliography. At the same time, we have to acknowledge that the
PROGRAMME has taken only the smallest first steps toward establishing a
rich intertextual understanding of postmodernism, based on hypertext links. Our
list of links below stands as a monument to good intentions--but also, we hope,
as a sampler of what could be done with sufficient time, diligence, and
intellectual vigor.
LIST OF THE REFERENCES
- Seminar in Textual Studies, Ben
Attias.
- Radical Thought, Jean
Baudrillard.
- The Second War and Postmodern
Memory, Charles Bernstein.
- Critical evaluation of Sven Birkerts,
The Gutenberg Elegies.
- Critical Approaches to Cultural Studies
Studies, Ron Burnett.
- Enculturation: An Electronic Journal for Cultural
Studies, Rhetorics, & Theories
- Critical Theory Page, University
of Texas at Austin.
- Deleuze and Guattari List,
University of Virginia.
- Deleuze and Guattari on the Web,
compiled by Alan Taylor.
- Deleuze's ABC Primer, an overview by
Charles Stivale.
- HYPER in 20th Century Culture: The
Dialectics of Transition from Modernism to Postmodernism, Mikhail Epstein.
- Edward R. Friedlander, Why I Am Not a
Postmodernist.
- Modernism vs. Postmodernism, I.
Hassan.
- The Nerd and the Noosphere,
Michael Heim.
- Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide
to the Postmodern Scene, Arthur Kroker, with Marilouise Kroker and
David Cook.
- The Political Economy of Virtual
Reality, Arthur Kroker and Michael A.Weinstein.
- The Hypertexted Body,
Kroker and Weinstein.
- The Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory
Page: Postmodern, Alan Liu.
- Experiment in Hypertext
Rhetoric, Stuart Moulthrop.
- Marcos Novak, transUrban Optimism After
The Maul of America.
- G.K. Parish-Philp, Postmodern
Philosophy.
- Postmodern Culture
Magazine.
- Thomas Pynchon Sites
- Search for Some Hypertext
Fiction, Prentiss Riddle.
- Postmodern Culture, Global Capitalism, and
Democratic Action, posted by Dan Schubert for the Couch-Stone
Symposium of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 10-13 April
1997, at U. of Maryland.
- Andrew Ross, Science Wars: Toward a Critique
of Scientific Rationality.
- Doom Patrols, Steve
Shaviro.
- Alan Sokal, Transgressing the
Boundaries.
- Charles J. Stivale, Discussion With Felix
Guattari in 1985.
- University of Colorado at Denver
Site.
- VideoBridge International.
- Theory and Practice of
Hypertext, University of Virginia.
- The Virtual Information Technology College at
Washington State University.
- Nietzsche at the Mall: Deconstructing the
Consumer, Daniel R. White and Gert Hollerick.
30 November 1995. Reorganized 26 December 1995; 17 December 1996.
Links checked 30 November 1996: Burnett was not
connecting. Updated 10 February 1999
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