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The Hypermedia Art and Literature Directory offers a detailed review of works in art and literature which use various forms of hypermedia.

Reach

Reach

Submitted by NT2 on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 16:13

Author(s):

Brousseau, Simon

Il s'agit d'un hypertexte signé par Michel Joyce, considéré comme étant l'un des pères de la fiction hypertextuelle. L'hypertexte se déploie autour du thème évoqué par le titre « Reach » et les nombreuses connotations de ce terme.

Reach

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Year:

2001

http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/hypermedia/michael_joyce/ReachTitle.html

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Date of last consultation:

June 22, 2006

Groupe de recherche:
Chaire de recherche du Canada en littérature contemporaine

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Interactivity:

Multiple Choice Navigation

Format:

Text, Hypertext

Theme:

Philosophy, Trial, Discourse, Self-reflexivity

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Citation(s)

There is a call from their imaginary son. This can mean many things and changes according to the stages of one's life. The call from the crib tends now to be broadcast on a bright plastic intercom, parents monitoring social development and self-reliance as much as the prospect of crib death or simple wetness. In our day, they think. What happened then does not matter, not to them or to each other's actual children. In some later stage the call could as well come from camp or boarding school or college. Will children soon have no sense of what a public phone was, the coin slots like ears of animals at a petting zoo? Perhaps cell phones will live into their metaphoric naming, nanotechnology injected beneath the skin of a child's neck at birth. No need for the Fisher Price intercom or the black and chrome oblong of the pay phone. Already businessmen in Stockholm tether their cells to a microphone which picks up the voice via bone conduction. They fear having their heads microwaved into a slush of cancerous cells. What happened to the simple fantasy of having had at least one child together. It is lost in the airwaves. Who is calling?

Biography

Joyce, Michael

Michael Joyce (né en 1945) enseigne au département d'anglais du Vassar College à Poughkeepsie (New York, États-Unis). Son hypertexte de fiction Afternoon, a Story (1987) est considéré comme un des premiers exemples de littérature hypertextuelle "sérieuse". Il est aussi l'auteur de plusieurs textes linéaires, publiés sur le Web et en version papier.

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