The New Age of Narrative - HyperTexts

We’ve spoken about the widening of Literature into aspects of Media such as film, as well as how Media is evolving humanity itself into something that is Posthuman. But today, let’s combine the two, and think of how Media is evolving Literature and the way we interact with texts. 

Judy Malloy’s hypertext, Uncle Roger, was the first of its kind. Instead of the linear narrative we find in traditional books, hypertexts allow the reader to essentially create the narrative. 

 https://people.well.com/user/jmalloy/uncleroger/partytop.html 

After a few years (well almost 30), Paul De Farge wrote Luminous Airplanes (2012). A hypertext that takes a novelistic approach but still utilises the same premises Malloy brought to the table in 1976. 

https://www.luminousairplanes.com/section/eulogies#3 

I want to consider how hypertexts are demonstrating an evolution within Literature. As everything else in our culture moves online, so have our texts. But the question is, is this a good thing?

I’d love to hear your thoughts. Do you think it’s significant that even though Luminous Airplanes is a hypertext it has also been published as a physical novel?

Are we moving away from physical forms of Literature? Is this really a New Age?