The intention has been for it to continue as long as there is active participation. To open this densely compressed consideration to its real multiplicity, the members of TWG began publicly posting, at their web site, email discussions and online chats with some of the speakers and participants. He has developed a somewhat convoluted rationale for understanding the project in relation to the linguistic history of the word fetish, as pidgin and then creole. While this project is more or less consistent with what most other hypertext writers have always asserted, Ulmer is suggesting a way to bring the idea into a practicing experimental arena where genuine cultural differences can be brought together for a kind of postcolonial consideration. Most of the pre-conference work had a relaxed, considered quality, at least partly related to TWG's interest in promoting a model of conversation and hypertext as a viable method of cultural formation.
Conversation is usually less concerned with authority than it is with genuine connection.
As a method of cultural construction, its emphasis is on learning and creating in an intimate and personal fashion rather than on imposing givens from above. They talk and talk and are so tiring to read and often are without much relevance to one's questions. We then thought that writing within networks should have its own quality. Instead of writing books, network-texts should address one or more persons on the other side of the line. At least this is the experience I have had with e-mail conversations.