Collection from last week’s newsletter (renewed; now sending weekly: the Antilibraries Analects)
Books on Hypertext; Hypermedia; Hyper[…]
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Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World — a theoretical study of complex mega-scale entities that defy comprehension
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Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence — James Lovelock’s new theory (written at age 100!?) that the anthropocene is already ending, and we’re entering the next age, the novacene…
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The Guidebook Experiment: Discovering Exploration in a Hyper-Connected World — tracing the evolution of the guidebook, and impacts on travel, adventure, exploration…and a call to conduct our own experiments in exploring the unknown
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HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities — cities overlaid with multivalent information networks, always under construction; excavating layered spaces; “thick mapping”
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Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext — the history of hypertext, including interviews with forerunners of hypertext innovation
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The Visual Guide To Extra Dimensions: Visualizing The Fourth Dimension, Higher-Dimensional Polytopes, And Curved Hypersurfaces - mostly right there in the title!
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Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art — on the potential of drawing & what lies beyond: multiple dimensions; alternate realities
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Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print — exploring how hypertext and electronic writing can “remediate” print forms
Eventually I should get proper collections in place on the main site & just use this for related discussion. But for now they can live here!
If you have further hyper books to add, please share em!