Remediating New Media, Staging Hypertext Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Only a fraction of today's critical discourse on technological innovation manages to avoid the pitfalls of techno-euphoria, and this despite the 'hypermediacy' of the new media. Paradoxically so, since no medium ever functions in isolation. Along Bolter and Grusin's 'remediation'-concept (2000) I argue that every medium is intrinsically a hypermedium on behalf of its reliance on other signifying systems to establish itself by contrast. Even ...