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Deus ex Machina: Navigating between the Lines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2009

Leslie Hill
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GOOD EVENING. Tonight I've been asked to talk to you about HTML – hypertext markup language – and its performative characteristics; its multimedia capacity; its non-linear structure; its interactive possibilities; its real-time relationship with its readers slash navigators slash audience; and its potential interest to writers cum artists cum performers.

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Research Article
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New Theatre Quarterly , Volume 14 , Issue 53 , February 1998 , pp. 48 - 52
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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Notes and References

1. Baudrillard, Jean, Simulations (New York: Semiotext[e], 1983), p. 1, 8, 25, 27Google Scholar.

2. Benjamin, Walter, ‘Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, in Illuminations, ed. Arendt, Hannah (New York: Schocken Books, 1985), p. 220Google Scholar.

3. Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, p. 1–4.

4. Mark Dery, Escape Velocity.

5. Ibid.

6. Lanham, Richard A., The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), p. 21CrossRefGoogle Scholar.