... Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences
Derrida forces us to rethink the
concept of the centre within the structure. This is especially relevant with the
advent of hypertext on the World Wide Web.
What constitutes the structure of hypertext? What marks the centre of hypertext? Where is the closure of hypertext, if there is any?
In fact, is it meaningful to discuss structure, as writers, of the
hypertext in the traditional notion? George
Landow’s idea of the de-centred text serves to further illustrate what Derrida
propounds in modern Critical Theory.