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VI:29.  For Aarseth, cybertext is a more inclusive term capable of encompassing most of the currently conceivable aspects of what we might call interactivity — text generation (dynamics), indeterminacy, animation (transience), role-playing perspective, configurative and authorship-sharing “user” functions, and so on. Hypertext is reserved for the normally static, but linked and randomly accessible texts which are now familiar to us through the World Wide Wed. “Ergodic” texts are those which demand “work” from the reader above and beyond the work of interpretation (the “success” of which is bracketed pending authoritative critical judgement), or in Aarseth’s more considered terms, “The ergodic work of art is one that in a material sense includes the rules for its own use, a work that has built in certain requirements that automatically distinguishes between successful and unsuccessful users.” [ERGODIC]

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