Word Space Multiplicities, Openings, Andings

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Jim Rosenberg

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Word Space Multiplicities, Openings, Andings: Collected Essays and Papers in Digital Poetics, Hypertext, and New Media, edited by Sandy Baldwin, published by Computing Literature, and distributed by West Virginia University Press, brings together my collected prose going back to 1991. The book is in two parts: Part I is essays and interviews, and Part II is formal papers. (You may order the book on-line here.)

“Jim Rosenberg is arguably the most radical and original thinker in digital poetics, a vital link between experimental traditions of the sixties and the open horizons of the present century. The future he imagines for writing—an object-engendered, deeply behavioral ecology of signs—resonates strongly with current ideas about actor-networks and our experience in a world of things. Which is to say, the rest of us are only now, 20 or 30 years on, beginning to catch up to Jim’s earliest recognitions. How important and timely, then, is this gathering of his essays on hypertext and digital poetics, which have been among the most influential in those fields and make rewarding reading for anyone who cares about the future of art and ideas.”

— Stuart Moulthop, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

"What he achieves, in theory and in practice, is no less than the invention of a new poetics and way of thinking, a blend of Mallarmé, Cage, and spatial programming, in which hypertext simultaneously unravels and complexifies the structure of language."

— Hélène Perrin and Arnaud Regnauld, University of Paris VIII

Previous Publication Credits	IX
Foreword by Sandy Baldwin	XIII
Preface	1
Part I: Essays and Interviews
1 Openings: The Connection Direct	9
2 Bios/The Logosphere/The Finite-Made Evolver Space	19
3 Questions about the Second Move	23
4 An Interview on Poetics	27
5 A Conversation with Jim Rosenberg	43
6 Inter-Field, the Acts	71
7 A Prosody of Space / Non-Linear Time	75
8 Visualities: The Shape of Openings Space, Buildings Invitation, Connection Guide Space	89
9 Poetics and Hypertext: Where are the hypertext poets?	91
10 Notes Toward a Non-linear Prosody of Space	101
11 The Word the Play Attaching at a Wide Interval	111
12 Making Way for Making Way: Co-Striation Act Topographer of the Mingle Scripter Transform Dance	113
Part II: Formal Papers
13 The Interactive Diagram Sentence: Hypertext as a Medium of Thought	119
14 The Structure of Hypertext Activity	131
15 And And: Conjunctive Hypertext and the Structure Acteme Juncture	149
16 Locus Looks at the Turing Play: Hypertextuality vs. Full Programmability	167
17 A Hypertextuality of Arbitrary Structure: A Writer’s Point of View	183
18 Hypertext in the Open Air: A Systemless Approach to Spatial Hypertext	199
19 Reflections on Spatial Writing in Place	217
20 Conditional Spatiality	227
21 User Interface Behaviors for Spatially Overlaid Implicit Structures	237
22 Navigating Nowhere / Hypertext Infrawhere	249
Bibliography	255
Index	269

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