Reading/Writing Hyperfictions: The Psychodrama of Interactivity Export

@article{citeulike:1622812, abstract = {This article explores the aesthetic implications of reading and writing hyperfiction. Text written for an interactive medium creates a radically different reading environment. The process of reading hyperfiction is inner-directed rather than other-directed. Since it is the reader who assembles the text, the boundaries between reader and text collapse, and the text is not necessarily perceived as an otherness. According to Baudrillard, the absence of otherness leads to psychodrama, an artificial dramaturgy simulating and dramatizing the absence of the other; in this dramaturgy, the subject becomes interactive, a candidate for all possible connections and combinations. The author addresses questions concerning narrative closure/causality/logic and time raised by the openness to connections and combinations required in navigating through a nonsequential text.}, author = {Paul, Christiane}, citeulike-article-id = {1622812}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/1576186}, keywords = {interactive\_fiction}, posted-at = {2007-09-05 12:36:02}, priority = {2}, title = {Reading/Writing Hyperfictions: The Psychodrama of Interactivity}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/1576186} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1622812 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1622812 N2 - This article explores the aesthetic implications of reading and writing hyperfiction. Text written for an interactive medium creates a radically different reading environment. The process of reading hyperfiction is inner-directed rather than other-directed. Since it is the reader who assembles the text, the boundaries between reader and text collapse, and the text is not necessarily perceived as an otherness. According to Baudrillard, the absence of otherness leads to psychodrama, an artificial dramaturgy simulating and dramatizing the absence of the other; in this dramaturgy, the subject becomes interactive, a candidate for all possible connections and combinations. The author addresses questions concerning narrative closure/causality/logic and time raised by the openness to connections and combinations required in navigating through a nonsequential text. TI - Reading/Writing Hyperfictions: The Psychodrama of Interactivity KW - interactive_fiction AU - Paul, Christiane UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/1576186 ER -