While the examples Johnson-Eilola uses in Nostalgic Angels to discuss hypertext are dated (e.g., the 1990s program HyperCard), his arguments seem to be just as salient today. Throughout the book, Johnson-Eilola complicates notions of hypertext, especial those claims that hypertext are utopian postmodern texts that decenter authorship, liberate readers, and create open democratic spaces.

J-E takes an ecological prospect, arguing that hypertext, like all computer technologies, "are More...