"Evil Bert...is indeed a trouble maker." (25)

p 24
"Transmissions of images, texts, and sounds may now, in the digital domain, be both noiseless and incoherent." ... "Translation is now a central dimension of any cultural study."

p 127
"The critical value of modern art is limited by the form of its objective presentation; that is, it appears as an object that may become a commodity and that reinforces the hegemonic relation of subject to object characteristic of modernity. ... [T]he art of networked computing brings forth a culture that highlights its future transformation rather than confirming the completeness of the real."

p 134
"If hypertext is a different inscription of writing from printed books... then the hypertext's effects on the reader might also diverge from that of the book. ... Hypertext located on a network of computers reconfigures all positions in the literary act--author, narrator, text, reader--to such an extent that perhaps the term narrative does not adequately capture or indicate the new positions."