Problematized by hypertext

Mark Bernstein points us to a couple of interesting things:

Figurski at Findhorn on Acid is a hypertext novel: It comes on a CD (Windows or Mac) and you decide where to go once you're in it (it's actually been around for awhile). It's comprised of 354 "nodes" with hundreds of links.

Jessica Laccetti's review is interesting as well, although possibly as much for what it says about her and big-word academics as what it says about the book. I admit I was particularly struck by a footnote:

[T]he prefix, "hyper" problematizes feminist thought (which has sought to destabilize hierarchies such as mind over body and vision over touch) as it adds inscriptions of hierarchy to an already seemingly hierarchical and male-dominated field.

Huh? Hypertext is hierarchical? Since when? Sure, it can be used that way, but we've gotten way beyond gopher-like menus, haven't we?