...in the late age of print the topography of the text is subverted and reading is design enacted. Thus the choices a text presents depend upon the complicity of the reader in creating and shaping meaning and narrative...Readers face the task of re-embodying reading as movement, as an action rather than a thing, network out of book.

- Michael Joyce, Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics, The University of Michigan Press, 1995


Borrowing from the conventions of print culture, those who view, combine, or manipulate hypertexts are commonly referred to as readers, while those who create, gather, and arrange hypertexts are called writers. Yet hypertext challenges and, many say, obivates these distinctions. Hypertext readers not only choose the order of what they read but, in doing so, also alter its form by their choices.

- Michael Joyce, Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics, The University of Michigan Press, 1995


"Writing will be increasingly freed from the constraints of paper-print technology... and vast amounts of information...will be accessible immediately below the electronic surface of a piece of writing"

- Michael Joyce quoting Michael Heim's Electronic Writing: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing (1987) in Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics, The University of Michigan Press, 1995


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