Proud to have my entry on Cyberpunk included in the Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media (Edited by Lori Emerson, Ben Robertson, and Marie-Laure Ryan). Sandwiched between Bernard Geoghegan and Benjamin Peters’ entry on “Cybernetics” and Marie-Laure Ryan’s on “Cyberspace,” it’s in very dignified company.
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Continue ReadingIt’s no wonder that Robert Coover’s “Babysitter” is often invoked as a hypertext precursor. The story is filled with recursive text chunks, overlapping timelines, and shifting centers of perspective, all of which destabilize a clear linear progression and make the story a convincing precursor to hypertext fiction. But what if you turned the text of […]
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