"Why does the field of writing pedagogy need a peer-reviewed hypertextual journal about hypertextual writing?"
"What the hell does Kairos mean, anyway???
Together with the Links Editor of the journal, Greg Siering, I have done my best to answer these questions for prospective contributors. In fact, Greg has even re-appropriated my original writing and started re-configuring it.
Which has very little (but everything) to do with this presentation.
In the context of a global hypertextual writing environment, the World-Wide Web, academia is literally reinventing itself and the way it makes knowledge. The participants in this conference will have an opportunity to both model and create this re-inventional process by linking their independent and panel-driven ideas into a larger web of meaning. The process is one we might -- and I will -- call kairic.
Oh, one last point. How many of you are utterly annoyed by the number of links on this one screen?