ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a trend in posthypertext digital narrative. The text is not to be understood only as a singular work or artefact bound by printed space, but as a performance that unfolds over time. It is not the case that the majority of authors who were working in hypertext in the 1990s and 2000s have abandoned digital writing altogether, but that they have continued to experiment with and invent new forms that have become possible in contemporary network contexts. The chapter examines how many of the theoretical underpinnings, structural elements, and narrative techniques of hypertext have migrated into other forms of digital narrative. Hypertext fictions appear alongside kinetic poetry, generative poetry and fiction, cinematic digital narratives, interactive narrative animations, interactive fiction, interactive drama, new media performance, locative narratives, hypermedia documentaries and a variety of other forms.
