they
teach you how to
Òa fabric of traces
referring endlessly to something other than itselfÓ (Derrida)
they teach you Ôcritical thinking skillsÕ
Òit promises to theorize
hypertext, and hypertext promises to embody and test [critical] theoryÓ (Landow:
40)
they tell you to Ôwatch
your figureÕ
Òthe computer is the
embodimentÓ of the subject (Bolter: 208)
they teach you to read by
reading aloud to you
Òre-embody reading as a
movement, as an action rather than a thingÉ[to find] a way of reading
sensuallyÓ (Joyce cited in Barnet, 2002: 28)