Òoft-criticized,
bite-sized, overlapping-little-essay styleÓ (Levinson, 1999: 22):
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culture. You put hypertext against Line and Print culture and wondered what it
all meant. You thought about conceptualizing hypertext, the structure (the
ÔmachineÕ), as a Ôthing-in-itselfÕ (borrowed from Barnet, 2002), but you
thought back to what was asked at the beginning of the journey. Who are you in the village? Surely more than
some Ôfloating consciousnessÕ (Barnet) or some something of the global
something. Radical post-structuralist or not, when it came down to it, you
couldnÕt see yourself Òeroding or even vanishingÓ (Landow, 1993: 75), could
you? You looked down. You were still there.