The Jumpiness of Hyperliterature
The Jumpiness of Hyperliterature

Summary/Abstract: Hyperliterature is a creative modality already pushing out a second wave of writers and theorists. The non-linear narration and the multi-layered plot exclude the syntagmatic, completely sensuous reading. The new type of reading will be a jumpy one, devious and unpredictable as long as any reader is able to customize their narrative itinerary. The implicit risk is that the profane reader, deprived of the necessary training for approaching an arborescent reading, should choose the plain, non-heuristic trajectory – the one named by Jonathan Carr “the low bandwidth literature”. Assuming the risk or not, interactivity is the only way for the written message to survive in the epoch of the audio-visual.

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