The flâneur's connective activity serves as a useful model for students seeking to build hypertexts. Readings that encourage such practices are:

  • Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism
  • Johndan Johnson-Eilola, "Negative Spaces: From Production to Connection in Composition"

Now students need to engage in the practice of being flâneuses.

  • Build a webspace to explain, expand on the concept of intertextuality. Use lots of links and a multilinear or non-heirarchical structure.
   

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