Hypertext as Subversive?

I have just discovered (via Mark Bernstein) an essay, in hypertext, by David Kolb called Hypertext as Subversive?. The essay introduces itself by saying:

Universities are said to be places of critical discussion and evaluation that train new cognitive explorers, make better maps, and also create new territories for exploration. We are all familiar with the internal walls that limit that creativity. These walls may may be implicit in the very ideal of a university. Could hypertext linking help resist and subvert those walls, and undo what is too often the university’s one-way meta-position?

This essay is self-referential: it works around a debate about whether media like itself are inevitably linked to processes of homogenization and oppression.

Its interesting to me that I never found this essay while working in an academic institution to create a hypertext.

I enjoyed the fact that the essay begins with an early link to how to read this essay. Ironic really, considering that one of the benefits of a hypertext is a variety of paths through it, that there would be a need for a users manual.