The Unknown

Submitted by NT2 on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 16:16

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Dans cet hypertexte foissonnant, les quatre auteurs se mettent en scène. Ils prétendent avoir une vie dans l'hypertexte « We had begun to live out the hypertext. ». On retrouve dans ce texte d'autofiction un méta-discours à propos de l'hypertextualité et des jeux du langage. L'oeuvre contient beaucoup d'hyperliens et permet une navigation d'une longue durée. Une version imprimée est également disponible. Le site qui l'héberge propose également les correspondances de ses auteurs, des numérisations de cartes postales, des illustrations. The Unknown est une oeuvre très vaste.

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At some point it had simply gone too far. We had begun to live out the hypertext. We were decadent, overfed, shallow and vain. Scott, who has practically no hair to begin with, Was traveling with a personal stylist. Dirk, who for years has prided himself on his poverty, Spent millions on automobiles. He would never buy just One at a time, saying that he would need a different color BMW for each day of the week, to match the Excaliburs. His followers emptied their retirement accounts, Leaving nothing for themselves, Catering to his every whim, Of which there were many.

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« This is a hypertext novel that has a story, er, several, storylines. It’s no Grammatron. It’s a satire of the contemporary American Publishing Industry. It’s a documentary. It’s an art gallery. It’s encylopedic. Three of the four authors of the novel portion of The Unknown learned how to write encyclopedic novels from Krass-Mueller, in his fiction-writing workshop at prestigious Illinois State University. But after we had graduated with our M.A.s we discovered very quickly that none of us were geniuses. It was only after getting together, and hatching this project, that we were finally able to come up with a book that was almost as big and almost as funny as In Cold Jest. And then we put it on the World Wide Web, vastly undercutting our competition by making it free for everyone to read. »

Biography

Stratton, Dirk
Marquardt, Frank
Gillespie, William
Rettberg, Scott

A native of the Chicago area, Scott Rettberg is professor of digital culture in the department of linguistic, literary and aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Rettberg is the author or co-author of novel-length works of electronic literature including The Unknown, Kind of Blue, and Implementation. His work has been exhibited online and at art venues, including the Beall Center in Irvine California, the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, and The Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois. Rettberg is the cofounder and served as the first executive director of the non-profit Electronic Literature Organization, where he directed major projects funded by the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Rettberg is currently the Project Leader of the HERA-funded collaborative research project ELMCIP: Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice. (https://elmcip.net/person/scott-rettberg)

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