Hipertekstas Arba Epas Apie Avariją Ir Sumaištį
Hypertext or the Epic on Crash and Confusion

Summary/Abstract: The idea of hypertext, suggested by Theodor Holm Nelson in 1965, has commonly been discussed in the context of literary theory or rhetoric or, speaking more generally, in the context of book culture. This article is an attempt to see hypertext – a non-linear media – from the position that would be an alternative to the analytical tradition of hypertext. The search for such an approach is provoked by the standpoint of the creator that hypertext should be something quite different from the previous media system in Western culture. If one consistently follows the spirit of Nelson’s idea of hypertext, the categories of non-linear culture and interpretation should be related, not to scientific, but to experience discourses and their reflection in metaphors - magic, dreams, flickering of ambiguity and a disastrous breakage - revealing the structure of the reality phenomenon observed in the moment of shock. The article concludes that indirect, poetic characteristics describe the peculiarities of a hypertext media more accurately than the effort to accommodate them in definitions with strict boundaries. This article is an attempt to see hypertext – a non-linear media – from the positions that would be an alternative to the analytical tradition of hypertext.

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