Hypertext and literary theory both reconceive the author in a second way. As we shall observe when when we examine the notion of collaborative writing, both agree in configuring the author of the text as a text. As Barthes explains in his famous exposition of the idea "this 'I' which approaches the text is already itself a plurality of other texts, of codes which are infinite" (S/Z 10). . . . hypertext embodies many of the ideas and attitudes proposed by Barthes, Derrida, Foucault and others. One of the most important of these ideas involves treating the self of author and reader not simply as (print) text but as hypertext. for all these authors the self takes the form of a de-centered (or centerless) network of codes that, on another level, also serves as a node within another centerless network. . . .
The third form of reconfiguration of self and author shared by theory and hypertext concerns the de-centered self, an obvious corollary to the network paradigm. (71-76)
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