Footnoting hypertext

honestly now - have you ever read more absurd stuff in your life than bahktin? well except for foucault - and what is this “the juxtaposition of Dostoevsky's world with Einstein's world is, of course, only an artistic comparison and not a scientific analogy” – whhhhat – not scientific - and he just had to bring up Saussure when you know i hate -

oh wait i’m ehrengard

the political cage of language - social/political repercussions for every word we use. the network – this makes so much sense to a student of literature – especially of early modern drama – but also applies to, for example, politics

(btw am having my 104 class read Cixous, Zizek, Baudrillard right now – it was Aquinas, Descartes, Konrad Lorenz, Antonio Damasio the last two weeks)

we had to read patchwork girl (the hypertext novel) for my THE NOVEL class in college (right next to War and Peace and Dangerous Liaisons). really good attempt but complete failure. fiction is already hypertextual by nature - i wonder why fiction doesn’t play well with online hypertext? -

hypertext online works for nonfiction really well (see any online newspaper like Time or the New York Times, or a blog like The Huffington Post or The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan)

i guess you can’t separate style from genre (“The Problem of Speech Genres,” pg. 65). Hypertext in fiction is real, concrete, not a function – not something you have to link to – it’s the footnotes to The Waste Land not hyperlinks – come to think of it hyperlinks could substitute for footnotes quite well huh as in this link.