Abraham, Terry. "Books to Bytes: Libraries and the Internet". Abraham further develops
Kurzweil's thinking on virtual libraries.
Alt-X. By Mark Amerika. There is much as this site to study and learn from. Be sure to take a look at MA's "Grammatron." Click once and you can then just sit back and watch it all happen.
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Illuminations. Ed. Hannah Arendt. NY: Schocken, 1969: 217-51.
Birkerts, Sven, and Kevin Kelly. "The Electronic Hive: Two Views. 1. Refuse It. 2. Embrace It." Harper's Magazine (May 1994): 17-21, 24-25.
boing boing Digital. Check out the Zine in print as well.
Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991. (A version of this book is available in hypertext on disk.)
Browning, John. "Libraries Without Walls--For Books Without Pages: What is the role of libraries in the Information Economy?" Wired 1.1 (1993, The Premiere Issue).
Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." Atlantic 176 (July 1945): 101-108. Or on line.
Bush, Vannevar. "Memex Revisited." In Science Is Not Enough. NY: William Morrow, 1967: 75-101.
Critical Art Ensemble. The Electronic Disturbance. NY: Autonomedia, 1994.
Deemer, Charles. "What Is Hypertext?" 1994. Charles Deemer's Homepage. Online. 22 August 1995.
Dingbat (Satire for Global Village Idiots), edited by Derek Pell. A wonderful Zine, in print only.
Johnson, Steven. "Repossession: An Electronic Romance." Lingua Franca (May/June 1995): 24-33. (An article about Jerome McGann's Rossetti Archive.)
Joyce, Michael. Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
Katsh, M. Ethan. Law in a Digital World. Oxford UP, 1995.
Katz, Jon. "Return of the Luddites." Wired (June 1995): 162-65, 210.
Kelly, Kevin. "Interview with the Luddite [Kirkpatrick Sale]." Wired (June 1995): 166-68, 211-14.
Kelly, Kevin. For a
discussion of Borges's "Library of Babel" and, more interestingly, a faked interview with Borges, see Out of Control. New York: Addison Wesley: 258-263, and thereafter.
Kurzweil, Raymond The Age of Intelligent Machines. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.
Landow, George P. Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1992. (A version of this book is available in hypertext format on two disks.)
Lanham, Richard A. The Electronic Word. Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993. (This is available in hypercard, expanded book format.)
Liberal Education 79 (Winter 1993). Special Issue: The Future of the Book in the Electronic Age.
Malloy, Judy. "Hypernarrative in the Age of the Web". Arts.Community.2.5.
Miller, Laura. "www.claptrap.com," a critical attack on hypertext. Since this is at the NY Times On the Web (March 15, 1998), you may have to become a "member" by taking a password and giving your e-mail address.
Mondo 2000. Check out this magaZine, for there is nothing that compares with it. I think that it is one of the most beautiful, perverse, and challenging publications that I have seen in a long time. Unfortunately, since it appears so infrequently, it may be gone. Check out its gopher site.
Murray, Janet H. Hamlet on the Holodeck. Cambridge: MIT UP, 1997.
Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital. NY: Knopf, 1995.
Nelson, Theodor Holm. Literary Machines. (Self Published, distrib. by The Mindful Press), 1980.
Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. NY: Vintage, 1991.
Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. NY: Penguin, 1986.
Postman, Neil. Technology: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. NY: Vintage, 1993.
PRE/TEXT: Electra(Lite). A Zine co-edited by Cynthia Haynes and Victor J. Vitanza.
Wark, McKenzie "Virtual Knowledge in the Library of Babel". Additional papers by Wark.
Wired. For back issues (with selected articles available on the site), go to Wired, TOC. Do not forget HotWired.
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