From Text to Hypertext POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy Before the advent of modern

Before the advent of modern antibiotics

and how so many colonists came to believe their prosperity depended on acknowledging Indigenous land rights

enlivened by harrowing photographs and maps of each city

literary criticism

From Text to Hypertext POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy Before the advent of modernIt is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subjectthe selfis unstable, fragmented, and decentered. One useful way to examine this principle is to look at how the subject has been treated in various media in the premodern, modern, and postmodern eras. Silvio Gaggi pursues this strategy in From Text to Hypertext, analyzing the issue of subject construction and deconstruction in selected examples of visual art, literature, film, and electronic media.