who writes? scattered speculations on scholarship in cyberspace


"When a bit of talking is taking place, just what is doing the talking?"
---Kenneth Burke

Mady Schutzman and Heather Raikes offer works that operate at the interstices of textual performance and scholarship. These exhibits explore various possibilities of cyberspace and hypertext for scholarly communication.

The following speculations arose from my interaction with these exhibits. These thoughts are offered not as a means of making sense of these works, but rather as a manifestation of the performative effects these works inspired. This rejoinder is a meditation not so much on the works themselves as on some of the questions about communication, technology, and subjectivity these works raise. This rejoinder represents my thinking on the matter, but problematizes both "thinking" and "mine."



::[language is a virus from outer space]::
::[you can't surf the same wave twice]::
::[what does it all mean?]::
::[do you (have to) believe in magic?]::

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Author Note: Bernardo Attias is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Northridge. His work focuses on mediated representations of national and cultural identities.