Intertextuality
This project was constructed on, and is about, electronic hypertext. It belongs to the realm of the digital. Basically what is meant by digital is that information is converted into two types of electrical impulses: 1's and 0's. These 1's and 0's are combined in different ways to record and represent information. The combinations of 1's and 0's can be stored, transmitted, altered, and then converted back into sensible information. Nearly all kind of information can be converted into digital form: images, sound, text, and movies. By being a digital technology, hypertext is capable of enframing all those types of information. It can be supposed that the logic of writing will undergo several changes by the advent of hypertext. Now, any text can contain movies, songs, images, and speeches on it. The writer is no longer simply a “writer” because, in hypertext, writing does not mean solely the writing of verbal information, but is understood as Derrida's notion of an assemblage that could include non-verbal information as well. The writer has to produce a textual assemblage and, in addition of writing a verbal text, this includes also the task of creating, or even “cutting and pasting,” images and sounds. That is why George Landow proposes using hypertext and hypermedia as synonymous terms.
Other important characteristics of Hypertext are:
Hypertext and Post-Structuralism
The Author, the Reader and the Book