Course Reader for English 165HL
"Literature & the Culture of Information" (Prof. Alan Liu)

(Contents in Alphabetical Order)
  1. Jorge Luis Borges, "Funes the Memorious" (1954) and "The Garden of Forking Paths" (1941), from Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, ed. Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (New York: New Directions, 1964)

  2. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1987), pp. 3-38

  3. J. Yellowlees Douglas, The End of Books–Or Books without End?: Reading Interactive Narratives (Ann Arbor, MI: U. Michigan Press, 2000), pp. 89-106

  4. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1991), pp. 38-45

  5. Friedrich A. Kittler, Discourse Networks, 1800/1900,trans. Michael Metteer with Chris Cullens (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1990; originally pub. in German in 1985), pp. xii-xviii from David Wellbury's "Foreword" and pp. 206-229 from "The Great Lalula"

  6. George P. Landow, Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997; 1st ed. 1992), pp. 2-6, 11-20, 33-38

  7. Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997), pp. 135-47, 154-82

  8. Theodor Holm Nelson, Literary Machines: The Report On, and Of, Project Xanadu Concerning Word Processing, Electronic Publishing, Hypertext, Thinkertoys, Tomorrow's Intellectual Revolution, and Certain Other Topics Including Knowledge, Education and Freedom, rev. ed. (the cover gives the release number "90.1" by analogy with software releases) (Sausalito, Calif.: Mindful Press, 1990), excerpts (unpaginated)