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Weltwissen Wissenswelt. Das globale Netz von Text und Bild [German]
Nowadays, digital technologies pour information on people whose only escape is ignorance. Others are saying reason is the icing on the cake of fundamental affects in making decisions. The book contains the contributions of the conference "Envisioning Knowledge" - Beat Mazenauer reads through it.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2001/Mazenauer-20-Maerz

Metaphorologie der Medien [German/Englisch]
Abstract of an essay about open questions of media theory and the contour of a metaphorology of the media.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Tholen-10-Dez

Dispositions of Digital Media [German]
Jörn Glasenapp and Roberto Simanowski brainstorm about Bolter's and Grusin's Remediation, the classical author-text-reader-triangle and the relation of reality and fiction.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Simanowski-Glasenapp-28-Nov

Remediation: Understanding New Media [German]
Jörn Glasenapp reviews Bolter's and Grusin's discussion of the psychology of New Media using categories like remediation ("representation of one medium in another"), immediacy (the deny of mediation in favor of immediate experience) and hypermediacy (the alter ego of immediacy "whose goal is to remind the viewer of the medium").
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Glasenapp-26-Nov

Ex Libris. Literature in Media Urbanity [English]
Abstract of Søren Pold's doctoral thesis about literary works, thematising how literature reflects the media situation. He focuses on the relationship between literature and the development in media during the last two centuries.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Soeren-22-Nov

Digital Literature: From Text to Hypertext and Beyond [English]
This is the abstract of Raine Koskimaa's thesis, which calls the concept of Hypertext into question, stressing its printed predecessors and calling-with reference to Espen Aarseth-for a cybertext theory that covers functionality of all texts, printed or digital. Having done away with the distinction between hypertext, cybertext, and digital text, Koskimaa nevertheless sticks to classical research issues and focusses on hypertext fiction and its narrative devices as ontolepsis-the "leaks" between separate ontological levels-and the use of spatial signification. Koskimaas prediction: fiction based on "pure" hypertext may be coming to an end, and although there are computer games, virtual realities and other massively programmed forms towering on the horizon, there is also the possibility for a new literature.
http://www.dichtung-digital.de/2000/Koskimaa-10-Sep