The Virtual Muser Is this world any different, or have we walked through the looking glass and cannot find our way back?"

Postmodernism by Dr. Mary Klages, University of Colorado Postmodernism is a complicated term, or set of ideas, one that has only emerged as an area of academic study since the mid-1980s. Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of disciplines or areas of study, including art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communications, fashion, and technology. It's hard to locate it temporally or historically, because it's not clear exactly when postmodernism begins. The Postmodern Turn in Philosophy: Theoretical Provocations & Normative Deficits by Steven Best and Douglas Kellner In the realm of philosophy and other theoretical discourses, there are many different paths to the turn from the modern to the postmodern, representing a complex genealogy of diverse and often divergent trails through different disciplines and cultural terrains. Cultural Logic in Cyberspace: Web Art & Postmodernism by Amy Davila

Trivializing the Word - Hypertext, Postmodernism, and Reading by David S. Miall Postmodern, liberationist claims of hypertext theorists -- mainly Bolter, Landow, and Moulthrop -- are assessed in relation to literary reading. It is argued that such claims are based on a misrepresentation of existing reading practices, and that to relocate reading to the spatialized, non-linear, unstable environment they celebrate jeopardizes the kind of reading that is characteristic of literary response. The Electronic Labyrinth Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, Robin Parmar The Electronic Labyrinth is a study of the implications of hypertext for creative writers looking to move beyond traditional notions of linearity