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HyperLiterature

The mode is postmodern, like hypertext, multilinear and designed by the reader's reading. But this emerging form is also enframed in complex ways by the technologies of representation, information, and capital. These are writerly texts, to use the Barthesian term, but also simulacra, techne, and wealth.

Does the hyperliterature 'text' predate hypertext itself, the way postmodern predates modernism?

Will this emerge as a genre?

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