text, n.All

The Text is an effect of the discourse of the social/temporal origins of its production and the author is thus effectively anonymous.

The Text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

The Text is, in contrast to the work, without a source . The 'author' is a mere 'guest' at the reading of the text.

Text is context as the entire 'real-history-of-the-world'.

The Text is exploded by even the tiniest fragment of reality such that the bloody fingerprint of a murderer on the page of a book says so much more than the text.

A Text is a vehicle through which individuals communicate with one another using the codes and conventions of society.

The Text is not a definitive object.

A Text is a heterogeneous differential and open field of forces.