Individuality and Unique Texts

"[A]s scholars from McLuhan and Eisenstein to Ede and Lunsford have long argued, book technology and the attitudes it supports are the institutions most responsible for maintaining the exaggerated notions of authorial individuality, uniqueness, and ownership that often drastically falsify the conception of original contributions in the humanities and conveys distorted pictures of research . . . [P]rint technology has also contributed to the sense of a separate, unique text that is the product--and hence the property--of one person, the author. Hypertext changes all this, in large part because it does away with the isolation of the individual text that characterizes the book" (George P. Landow Hypertext 92-3).

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