This
essay describes some of the structural limits of
authoritative hypertext works and of the cultural
interface in which they are perceived by looking at
new media objects such as
Victory Garden,
the AOL interface, and the Netscape/Mozilla browser
software. Rather than 'unmasking' hypertext as not
having the potential for resistance that it seemed
to have, however, it is argued within a
post-Marxist political framework that hypertext,
when understood as the totality of computers that
are linked through the internet, on a formal level
does promote an authoritative shift in the politics
of new media objects.
1. When Hypertext
became Uncool…
2. The Politics of New Media Objects
3. Cultural Software
4. The Innocence of the GUI
5. Hypertext and Hegemony
6. Shifting Paradigms