Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind

Table of Nodes

Table of Nodes Preface xi For Book-readers Only 1 Home Page 5 Getting Started 7 Disclaimer 17 Book versus Website 21 Response 23 Linkmaps 29 Nodes in Alphabetical Order 31 A Foot in Each World 33 Accuracy 36 Agora As Verbal Marketplace 40 Agora Correspondences 41 Agoraphobia 41 Arena of Oral Tradition 43 Arena of the Text 45 Arena of the Web 47 Audience Critique 49 Bellerophon and His Tablet 50 Citizenship in Multiple Agoras 51 Cloud and Tradition 55 Contingency 60 Culture As Network 66 Culture Shock 70 Distributed Authorship 74 Don’t Trust Everything You Read in Books 77 eAgora 79 eCompanions 95 eEditions 96 ePathways 96 eWords 98 Excavating an Epic 100 Freezing Wikipedia 103 Getting Published or Getting Sequestered 106 Homo Sapiens’ Calendar Year 113 How to Build a Book 115 Ideology of the Text 117 Illusion of Object 125 Illusion of Stasis 127 Impossibility of tPathways 130 In the Public Domain 131 Indigestible Words 133 Just the Facts 135 Leapfrogging the Text 138 Misnavigation 142 Morphing Book 146 Museum of Verbal Art 149 Not So Willy-nilly 163 oAgora 165 Online with OT 179 oPathways 181 Owning versus Sharing 182 oWords 185 Polytaxis 187 Proverbs 191 Reading Backwards 195 Real-time versus Asynchronous 199 Reality Remains in Play 203 Recur Not Repeat 208 Remix 212 Responsible Agora-business 213 Resynchronizing the Event 218 Singing on the Page 221 Spectrum of Texts 225 Stories Are Linkmaps 234 Systems versus Things 237 tAgora 238 Texts and Intertextuality 253 Three Agoras 255 tWords 262 Variation within Limits 263 Why Not Textualize? 269 Wiki 271 Further Reading 273 Notes 281 Index 287 ...