disOrder


same as it ever was

argument: no substantive difference between print and hypertext; just a new medium that accomplishes the same thing.

Hayles: defining characteristic of the present cultural moment is the belief that information can circulate unchanged among different material substrates - that information on the screen and in the body are equivalent and univocal

rebuttal: Bolter and Grusin on the fundamental differences re-mediation makes
Hayles' arguments about humanism - also connection to gender, to cyborg

also

  • reiterate different navigation
  • multimedia - text + image + sound, etc.

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