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- | The hypertext “electronic book” project was initiated | + | The hypertext “electronic book” project was initiated by [[: |
- | by Bernd Wingert | + | |
- | Karlsruhe [Karlsruhe Nuclear | + | |
- | Research Center] (KFZK), today part of the Karlsruhe | + | |
- | Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. Though completed in 1991, the hypertext “electronic | + | |
- | book” is in many ways more sophisticated | + | |
- | than the forms of digital publishing which are | + | |
- | common today. | + | |
- | Intended to exploit the nascent participatory | + | Intended to exploit the nascent participatory potential of the new technological form of publication, |
- | potential of the new technological form of publication, | + | |
- | the hypertext was designed to replicate | + | The text elaborated in the “Flusser Hypertext” comes from a lecture Flusser delivered at the KFZK on March 2, 1989, titled “Schreiben für Publizieren” [Writing for Publishing]. It describes some of the essential virtues and challenges in electronic publishing toward the production of negentropic “new information.” For instance, in digital publishing, by transcoding writing, there is the potential, through the technical interruption of the relation between the writer and the “general realm of dialog, |
- | and extrapolate salient aspects of the experience | + | |
- | of being at one of Vilém Flusser’s lectures. | + | Flusser set specific priorities for the development of the hypertext, including that it should avoid redundant information, |
- | Revolutionary for their time were features such | + | |
- | as hyperlinked in-depth elucidations of Flusser’s | + | //Original article by [[: |
- | terminology as well as the possibility to share | + | |
- | one’s own comments with others and to ask the | + | // |
- | professor (or other participants) a question. Another | + | |
- | rare treasure for Flusser scholars is the | + | In 2014, in preparation for the Exhibition " |
- | rich set of bibliographic resources hyperlinked | + | |
- | to the text. \\ | + | {{url> |
+ | |||
+ | See also Bernd Wingert, [[https:// | ||
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+ | //On March 2, 1989, Vilém Flusser gave a lecture at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis. At the time, the Institute was part of the former Research Centre Karlsruhe, located in Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, | ||
- | The text elaborated in the “Flusser Hypertext” | ||
- | comes from a lecture Flusser delivered at the | ||
- | KFZK on March 2, 1989, titled “Schreiben für Publizieren” | ||
- | [Writing for Publishing]. It describes | ||
- | some of the essential virtues and challenges in | ||
- | electronic publishing toward the production of negentropic | ||
- | “new information.” For instance, in digital | ||
- | publishing, by transcoding writing, there is the | ||
- | potential, through the technical interruption of the | ||
- | relation between the writer and the “general realm | ||
- | of dialog,” to produce a communication which is | ||
- | far better able to convey contemporarily pertinent | ||
- | information than is conventional text alone. \\ | ||
- | Flusser set specific priorities for the development | ||
- | of the hypertext, including that it should avoid redundant | ||
- | information, | ||
- | but also that it should permit disagreement. | ||
- | The “Flusser Hypertext” thus consciously elaborates | ||
- | the potential released in the digital transformation | ||
- | of a lecture. It is a prototype for a digital | ||
- | form of philosophical endeavor. |
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