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Writing Space 1st edition (1991)	Writing Space 2nd edition (2001)
1. Introduction The late age of print Rewriting the book The uses of electronic writing The new voice of the book Computing as writing Writing spaces	1. Introduction: Writing in the Late Age of Print The late age of print The future of print The old and the new in digital writing Refashioning the voice of the text Refashioning the writing space
Part I: The Visual Writing Space
2. The Computer as a New Writing Space Writing places Electronic trees Hypertext Hypermedia The first hypertext Writers and readers of hypertext	2. Writing as Technology Writing technologies and material culture Economies of writing
3. Writing as Technology Writing as a state of mind Economies of writing Hard and soft structures Electronic structures	3. Hypertext and the Remediation of Print Word processing and topical writing Hypertext Writing as construction Global Hypertext Hypertext as remediation The old and the new in hypertext
4. The Elements of Writing Picture writing Writing of the second order After phonetic writing Pictorial space Writing in the margins Writing on the wind Constructive writing	4. The Breakout of the Visual The image and the printed page Visual metaphors Ekphrasis Picture writing Electronic picture writing The electronic page
5. Seeing and Writing Mechanical letters Electronic letters The electronic page Pictures in the text Diagrammatic space Numbering space Graphic rhetoric	5. The Electronic Book The changing idea of the book Great books Encyclopedic order The electronic encyclopedia The library as a writing space
Part II: The Conceptual Writing Space
6. The Electronic Book The idea of the book Great books Encyclopedic order The electronic encyclopedia Electronic environments The electronic library From Perseus to Xanadu The book of nature	6. Refashioned Dialogues The reading path From dialogue to essay to Web page The end of the line? The hypertextual essay? Educational dialogue Multiple dialogues
7. The New Dialogue The reading path Platonic dialogue From dialogue to essay The end of the line The new dialogue	7. Interactive Fiction “afternoon” The rhetoric of the multilinear Displacement and repetition in “Victory Garden” Disrupting the linear The tradition of experiment Sterne and the novel as conversation James Joyce as hypertext Borges and exhaustion in print Composition No. 1 Multiple reading and writing Digital poetry and performance texts Hypermedia: popular and avant-garde
8. Interactive Fiction "Afternoon" The geometry of interactive fiction The game of literature The tradition of experiment Sterne and the novel as conversation The hypertexts of James Joyce Borges and exhaustion in print The novel as program Multiple reading Multiple writing	8. Critical Theory in a New Writing Space Writing technologies and the literary critical tradition The end of authority Hypertext and poststructuralism Reader response and the architecture of hypertext Electronic signs Deconstruction and electronic writing New convergences and popular forms Looking at and looking through The practice of theory
9. Critical Theory and the New Writing Space Technology and criticism Technology and the literary canon The end of authority The reader's response Spatial writing Taking apart the text Deconstructing electronic text Looking at and looking through	9. Writing the Self Writing as analysis Writing the Caretsian mind Hypertext and the Cartesian ego Electronic writing and the postmodern self The materiality of the electronic self
Part III: The Mind as Writing Space
10. Artificial Intelligence The goal of artificial intelligence Modeling the ind Turing's writing text Artificial writing Writing chess Electronic animism Texts and minds Autonomous writing Artificial intelligence as deferral Searching for the author The writing test revisited	10. Writing Culture The network culture Cultural unity The remediation of culture
11. Electronic Signs Signs and reference The sign in action A texture of signs Signs without limit A new republic of letters	11. The Web Site References Index
12. Writing the Mind Writing as analysis Writing oneself Opening the gap Text and memory The textual mind The intentional gap
13. Writing Culture Perception and semiosis Antireading Virtual reality The network culture Cultural unity Cultural literacy The electronic hiding place