Providing Possibilities

"The most essential practice of hypermedia is to provide the whole set of possibilities, the paradigm itself, through which many different arguments or lines might be traced, or even by means of which alternative framings (other than that of 'problem') might be arranged. Readers of an argument are supposed to be moved to take an action, an action the composer had in mind, but the readers of hypermedia must take action at a much earlier state of the question, taking responsibility themselves for the line traced through the database. Such cognitive movement has to be at least in part invention, understood in the classical rhetorical sense of invention and in the avant-garde sense of innovation. The principles directing this inventive passage are associative, a style of reasoning that is as systematic as are the logics of story and argument" (Gregory L. Ulmer Literacy Online 162-63).


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