From Epic to Hypertext

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From Epic to Hypertext
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The art of storyteller fulfilled deep human
needs around the original blazing log.
--Sven Birkerts
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Willing Suspension of Disbelief
--S.T. Coleridge
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The new media are extensions of our humanity
--Janet Murray (channeling Marshall McLuhan)
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Post-modernism

• Heisenberg-- the Uncertainty Principle "The
  more precisely the POSITION is determined, the
  less precisely the MOMENTUM is known"

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Post-modernism

• Goedel --Undecidability Theorems
• In closed mathematical systems all true
  conclusions in that system can not be proven.

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• Chaos Theory
• Chaotic systems are complex iterative systems
  that are so strongly sensitive to initial
  conditions that it is impossible to predict their
  future with certainty.

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Niels Bohr
the principle of complementarity that items
could be separately analyzed as having several
contradictory properties.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss
Structuralism
mythical thought always progresses from the
awareness of oppositions toward their
resolution.
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Immersion Agency Transformation
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Eliza
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a shape imposed on what must always be a
surplus of stimuli.
--Sven Birkerts