Attack of the Hypertexts

Having submitted my final project for this class, I decided to be productive and work on my linguistics thesis for awhile. The funniest thing happened. As I stared at my mess of data, I found myself attacked by an overwhelming urge to write up my thesis as a hypertext! I doubt that the linguistics department would be too pleased with this idea, so I am contenting myself with blogging about my desire.

I'm not sure that I buy into McLuhan's claim that content is merely a distraction from the true message presented by the medium, but I am beginning to believe that my views of linearity and organization have been profoundly affected by the course material we've been exposed to this term. Patterns of thinking that would have seemed incoherent or wrong to me four months ago are suddenly making more sense than perhaps they should. After experiencing so many non-linear electronic literary forms these past few months, it's going to be a struggle for me to think exclusively in two dimensions again.