Online
Press Kit
Dans le domaine strictement numérique, l'un des exemples les plus aboutis est Millenium or the unknown. La page d'accueil de ce site anglophone, fascinante, propose un dialogue dans lequel les personnages commentent leur projet d'écriture hypertextuelle par un procédé de mise en abyme et notent qu'il ne devrait pas y avoir, en théorie, de début, puisque tous les éléments sont reliés. C'est la fin de l'incipit traditionnel: l'enjeu n'est plus de susciter la poursuite linéaire de la lecture, mais d'aiguiser le désir d'une exploration dont l'inconnue est bien sûr le comportement de l'internaute.
--Hugues Marchal, Magazine Littéraire
Unknown Declared CoWinner:
1st Trace/Alt-X International Hypertext Novel Contest
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/hypertext/
The London Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/net/990405ne/web.html
April 5, 1999
The Brown Daily Herald
http://www.theherald.org/herald/issues/040999/tech.f.html
April 4, 1999
New York Times article
on TP21CL Conference
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/circuits/articles/15writ.html
April 15, 1999
Michael Miller's PC Magazine
Review of TP21CL
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/opinions/0,7802,406498,00.html
WriteSites: Starlets and hypertext dropouts: Real
Time Australia
http://www.rtimearts.com/~opencity/rt31/writesit.html
"It was a dark and stormy night/day:"
Boulder Weekly's report on the
1999 CyberMountain conference
http://www.boulderweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=1358
Citizen Online/University
of Cincinnati Currents Article
http://www.citizenonline.com/papers/1999/june2/u-genre.html
June 2, 1999
"Has The Internet Killed
the Novel ?" At Random
http://www.randomhouse.com/atrandom
/sitepage/forums.cgi?page=1&messages_per_page=20
"Hypertext: Reading
Between The Links"
By Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
Sunday, August 15, 1999
(See the inventive print layout)
Coe College: Bad Journalism of
the Unknown
And again at 300 DPI
17 September 1999
"Hypertext Novel Offers
Easily Accessible Exits"
By Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
October 4, 1999
Unknown
on Unknown
October 1999 self-interview conducted on WEFT 90.1 FM, transcribed, and
published on the Alt-X publishing network.
"On
the Golden and Silver Ages of Hypertext"
By Jennifer Ley, Pif Magazine, January 1999
"That's
Entertainment: A Trio of Authors' Adventures in Hypertext"
By Brad Quinn, Cincinnati Citybeat, February 2000
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University of Cincinnati E-briefing
February 2000
Encylopedia Brittanica PANS the Unknown
By Neal Pollack, April 2000
The Unknown Respond
to Pollack in the Electronic Book Review
Technology Review: the
Unknown
By Nick Montfort, May/June 2000
University
High School Alumni Magazine
University
of Cincinnati News and Events
By Marianne Kunnen-Jones
"Thinking
Outside the Book," Kim Murphy, L.A. Times
July 2000
William and Dirk, along with other noted hypertext luminaries,
get interviewed, translated
into Italian, and published by Kung,
an Italian E-Zine
http://westwood.fortunecity.com/susileib/148/kung/07int.htm
October 2000
We think this article
in French mentions the Unknown
Magazine
Littéraire, November 2000, by Hugues Marchal
Mark Amerika mentioned us in American
Book Review
November-December 2000
We got included in Jumpin'
at the Diner at Riding the Meridian, a sort of second-class
canon for men. Jay Bolter, as usual, studiously ignores us.
December 2000
E-Literature
Scott, Rob Wittig and John Unsworth discuss electronic literature with
Gretchen Helfrich on WBEZ Chicago's Odyssey (RealAudio)
December 14, 2000
Unknown representative indicates intention to tour Australia:
Adrian Miles interviews Scott Rettberg for RealTime,
Australia's leading arts periodical.
December 2000/January 2001
I doubt we'll ever get mentioned in Poets
and Writers.
January 2001
"E-voking
Muses" by Julia Keller in the Chicago Tribune
May 18, 2001
"Whither
E-Literature? Automatic Writing" by Keith Gessen in the New
Republic
May 22, 2001
"Go!Wednesday" by Christopher Muther in the
Boston Globe
April 25, 2001
"Whatever
Happened to the Editors Anyhow?" by Michael Shumate in Hyperizons
Summer 2001
The
Dallas Morning News
Book Review by Joseph Milazzo
August 5, 2001
Text
Wars
by Dan Kelly
New City Chicago
August 30, 2001
Plugged
In
by Rob Brookman
Book Magazine links to the Unknown, and John Barth says hypertext
is a jim-dandy metaphor.
November, 2001
Unknown Scholarship
Reading Network Fiction by David Ciccoricco. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2007. Chapter 5—“Fluid or Overflowing: The Unknown and *water always writes in *plural,” 124-159.
Gillespie, William. “Drugs,
Machines, and Friendships: Hypertext,
Collaboration, and the Beatles.” Cybertext Yearbook (2002-2003):
186-200.
Destination Unknown: Experiments in the Network Novel
Ph.D. Dissertation by Scott Rettberg
The dissertation contains two components: a critical component that examines recent experiments in writing literature specifically for the electronic media, and a creative component that includes selections from The Unknown, the hypertext novel I coauthored with William Gillespie and Dirk Stratton.
"Een zwervende
draad"
M.A. Thesis by Carolien van den Bos
Perhaps the most rigorous Unknown Scholarship produced thus far, working
from a massively rich knowledge base, van den Bos deconstructs some of
the techniques and structural principles of the Unknown, delivers her
arguments within a hypertextual structure and places the Unknown in the
context of literary postmodernism. (in Dutch)
"Internet Hyperfiction: Can It
Ever Become an Innovative Art Form That is also Popular?"
352K .pdf download
M.A. Thesis by Nikolaj Jensen
February 2001, Univeristy of Copenhagen Department of English
Nikolaj examines the Unknown in the context of other online hypertexts, finding in it clues towards a more popular (and populist) hypertext literature.
(hyper)Textuality.org
"The entire work swirls around so well that eventually it doesn't matter that the supposed subject never appeared; the real subject is the journey, the self-examination or lack thereof, and the ... aw-hell fun of it. Along the way they discuss hypertext, writing, spoof the publishing industry, parody themselves and what they're doing. It's House of Leaves, but funny instead of frightening."
MI CRITICA SOBRE EL HIPERTEXTO
"THE UNKNOWN" by Julian Fernendez, Ange
"Connotative: An Anatomy of Anchors" by Deena Larsen
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (61:2) Spring 2003
The Unknown is mentioned in "Toying with the Parser: Aeshetic Materiality in Electronic Writing" by Daniel Punday.
"Reading,Writing, and Teaching
Creative Hypertext: A Genre-based Pedagogy."
84K .pdf download
Kevin Brooks
North Dakota State University (Fargo), Dept. of English
He had his students write a
take-off on our parody, but he doesn't think that their mimicry of
our satire is, in the end, great literature.
Unspun:
Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web
NYU Press, 2001. Thomas Swiss, ed.
Joe Tabbi throws us a mention in Chapter 11, "Narrative."
"False Pretenses, Parasites,
and Monsters: Some Recent American Fictions", a paper presented by
novelist Tom LeClair at Illinois State University, May 2000.
Read essays about The Unknown by three students at
the National University of Singapore: Kevin
Oh, Mike,
Li-Lin, and
Mei.
Audrey
really likes bunnies, but she tried to read the Unknown.
The
Proceedings of the Cybermountain Colloquium
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Other Links
to Unknown
REPERTOIRE
DE SIGNETS * Gaddis
in Fiction * Samuel
Beckett * Samuel
Beckett Apmonia * 4/02/01
Invisible City Web-Log * Jill
Walker's Weblog * English
312, American Literature, University of Lousville * Creative
"Writing" on the Web * Bill
Bly * William
Cole's Hypertext Links * The
Reading Room * Internet
Surf * Brianblinks
Susana
Tosca HT 200 Trip Report * Unbound
(SUNY/Potsdam) * LiP
Magazine * Hypertext
Theory and Fiction, Rita Raley, University of Minnesota * Hand
Made Records * Synthetic
Zero * Joseph
Duemer, Clarkson University Creative Writing * Société
Lezard Qwerty * Kevin
Brooks, English 358, North Dakota State University * Jim
Kalmbach, Hypertext Y2K * Fordham
University's Hypertext: Theory and Practice Spring 2001 - "The
Unknown is basically the Great American Hypertext Novel" --Thomas
Henry * TP21CL
- Attendees * "webzine99"
* Howling
Fantods * Eastgate
Systems * Irish links
* ISU
English Department Resources * Jean
Van Looy's favorite hyperfictions (#15) * Arkansas
Digital Underground * MISC.
Media * Stanford
Creative Services * The
Donald Bartheleme Page * Yahooka
* Yahoo
* Hypertext
Fiction * "The
first cult hypertext novel on the web" * The
Modern World Thomas Pynchon Page * Eirikur
Hallgrimsson likes us * Sarah
Fordham Sharpe thinks we're frustrating * Haddock.org
can't get enough * But
we didn't do it for Pat * John
Barth Scriptorium * Helen
Weinberger Center for the Study of Drama
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