So calm down, O Decorous Reader. This project, unlike Ulmer's perhaps, does not aim to blow anything up. It's playful (to a point) but also serious (to a point). If I've managed the trick, it should look more like satire than slapstick.
I ask you to consider only one outlandish thing before breakfast: that the critique of western rationalism that started in the sixties with people like Bateson and McLuhan and was turned into hermetic mystery during the seventies by Barthes and Derrida -- this thing is not over. It has not gone away. It may, as Landow tells us, just recently have found its Text, which is to say, its technology.