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"necessitates"? This is a powerful idea, one I started to develop in a paper for Digital Arts and Culture '99 (Miles) where I suggested that there is some expression of force outside of the shot in the cinema's desire to cut the shot into fragments, and that a similar force is present in hypertext and expressed as a desire to link. This 'force' is always outside of the shot, or the node, or the link. It is sought by the link, the link is an expression of appropriation of the force that writing and the link is a response to, but it is never adequate to this outside. Outsides remain, always, outside. Harpold's work on links and diversions - the manner in which links are always detours around what is sought, is extremely relevant here.
Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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