What is a hypertext?
Hypertext, a word invented by Ted Nelson that has now become shopworn from overuse, simply designates a collection of digitized documents, connected by links, more or less structured, and equipped with a navigational interface. The greater the structure, the more it resembles a database; the less the structure, the more it resembles chaos. We speak of hypertext or hypermedia apropos HyperNietzsche in order to underscore the fact that its website is not constructed according to the now classical process of textual indexing combined with search functions that operate within the field created by the indexing. Rather, it is structured according to a navigational interface that uses: 1) the subdivisions of Nietzsche s published works and the archival classification of manuscript documents; 2) the intertexual references contained in scholarly articles. HyperNietzsche transforms these documents into a net of hypertext links that connect the contributions to one another and to the original mat
