George Landow (professor)

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George Landow is Professor of English and Art History at Brown University. He is an early Electronic literature critic and theorist, as well as a pioneer in the analysis of hypertext and hypermedia. He is also is the founder and current webmaster of The Victorian Web[1], The Contemporary, Postcolonial, & Postimperial Literature in English web[2], and The Cyberspace, Hypertext, & Critical Theory web[3].

Landow's articles and books are of some importance to studies on the effects of digital technology on language. Landow discusses the effects of electronic media on literature, creating a plausible link with critics such as Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Paul de Man, and Michel Foucault, among others. This places him in a slightly different position on issues such as "the end of books" through the prophetic and "futurologic" view often taken by critics regarding new media and literature.

Landow is a well-known author, researcher and one of the most important thinkers concerning Hypermedia and Hypertext in academia. His most important works highlight the epistemological modifications which result from the migration between systems of "closed" authorial publication (such as books), to the "open" systems, such as the hypertext and hypermedia.

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Hypertext 3.0 : Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society), 2005
Hypertext 2.0 : The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society), 1997
Hypertext : The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society), 1991
Hyper/Text/Theory, 1994
Hypermedia and Literary Studies, 1994 (with Paul Delany)
The Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities, 1993 (with Paul Delany)