HYPERTEXT OR AMPUTATION OF DAEDALUS
HYPERTEXT OR AMPUTATION OF DAEDALUS

Summary/Abstract: Postmodern culture has overcome the stage dominated by iconocentrism being a culture of the virtual, and this is noticeable in terms of the status of the text within the virtual world, but also the attempt to virtualize the world. Today, there are computer programs or games that reproduce the world, function as simulations of reality and as compensatory worlds through which the user can become something completely different from what is in the real world, because with the Internet virtuality, our world it has entered a potentially infinite virtual labyrinth, which if we traverse it we build a thought in the ether. The hypertext inaugurates the transition from the formula of the two-dimensional text, specific to the condensed literature in paper books, to the electronic, three-dimensional text. Beyond its informative function, hypertext brings a change within the human being; spoken and written language becomes virtual language. As hypertext remedies printing, hypertext and other forms of electronic writing also participate in updating the notions related to the representations of the "self". Hypertext is the revelation that this virtual book of the consumer society is a cultural machine, through which the forms of communication of the future will be projected. Hypertexts are a new reality to which the human mind must learn how to relate. Rhizomatic narrative constructions are created by manipulating the reader who is imagined / constructed as a cyborg merged into an integrated system, a circuit with one or more intelligent machines. Hypertexts are the creation of cyborgic subjectivity.

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