Following Heidegger, we prefer to talk about 'breakdowns.' By this we mean the
interrupted moment of our habitual, standard, comfortable 'being-in-the-world.'
Breakdowns serve an extremely important cognitive function, revealing to us the
nature of our practices and equipment, making them 'present-to-hand' to us, perhaps
for the first time. In this sense they function in a positive rather than a negative way.
WINOGRAD AND FLORES
- Joyce says "hypertexts are read where they are written," but this is wishful thinking
- More often than not, the reader of hypertext is "exploring," not "constructing"
- Exploration sooner or later leads to "breakdown"
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