Hypertext Montage

What is the shape of hypertext? Hypertext resists the single linear narrative. Thoughts, also, resist the single linear narrative. They exist as something more like a hyperdimensional cloud of associations.

What is the shape of hypertext? Hypertext resists the single linear narrative. Thoughts, also, resist the single linear narrative. They exist as something more like a hyperdimensional cloud of associations. When we talk together, we flatten our N-dimensional thoughts into 1D linear narratives, in order to fit them through the 1D bottleneck of words. When we draw or sketch, we flatten our N-dimensional thoughts into 2D images in order to fit them through the 2D bottleneck of sight. The words and images mediate our thoughts (literally, media). They shape the way we think, flattening and…

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