The Boz and the Net
The Book of Boz was designed as a founder text. Its structure is an hypertext, justiciable to a nonlinear reading. Hence its elusive and vertiginous nature, intended to introduce the reader into an always moving universe. Putting it online won’t thus go smoothly. Indeed how to preserve its richness, while remaining educational ? How to give it to reading without betraying it ? Thinking twice about it, we will be careful, guarantee of an accurate slowness. So we will proceed in the following way : a progressive unveiling of the account per se, in a traditional form finally (the Tree), matched on the margins with the network of associations, resonances, repetitions and references that forge its true frame (the Roots). Thus "Word-tracks" will be underlined which course will reveal adjacent texts providing in turn other "links", designing little by little the image of an infinite rhizome. A rhizome the internet user besides will be able to dissect, reverse, divert or crush as he like, following its own desires. Doing so, he will rebound "elsewhere", in a different place he will have to redefine, to design, to reshape in order that others can also alter it, refining their own tour of it.
October 4th, 2006 at 11:24 am
[…] In this case, in avoiding to make the thesis heavy, only a text will be quoted. Evocative of a “sultry heat”, this text will exemplify , in a litterary way, the idea exposed in “the Boz and the Net”. […]
October 4th, 2006 at 11:43 am
[…] So, it had to relay, exemplify ans dolve another exegesis, aimed to other purposes : the Book of Boz conceived like a tree (the linear version of the account), of which the roots will unveil the structure : an hypertext’s, working by associations and reconstructions (see "The Boz and the Net"). […]