Re: [-empyre-] on electronic poetry

[Christina McPhee <christinamcphee@yahoo.com>]

--- geniwate <geniwate@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> the text becomes a different type of artefact that
> is capable of behaving in
> ways that are not associated with text in
> traditional media, or, in fact, in
> hypertext......

, a
> different level of textuality that intercedes in(?)
> the natural language
> semantics of the displayed text.
> 
> These issues are one reason why 'electronic poetry'
> seems so misleading to
> me; it fails to distinguish between algorithmic and
> non-algorithmic works,


Interesting,  about  ambiguity in the choice of topic
title. It was deliberate.  Literature is always
already misleading about something.  Could a poet
'fake' a hypertext? 

dreaming,
c 



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