Tuesday, November 18, 2003

you couldn't make it up
'One point on which those critics who see hypertext as the literal instantiation of poststructuralist theory would seem to be correct: the problematization of such conceptual metaphors as inside/outside has required an extraordinary straining at the boundaries of page-bound print, leading writers such as Derrida to employ such intentionally monstrous figures as "the double chiasmatic invagination of the text," where the contained secondary supplement turns out to be larger than, and include, its supposed primary source.'