McCarty 2010

McCarty, Willard, ed. Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions. Cambridge: OpenBook Publishers, 2010.

Cybertextuality by the Numbers, by Ian Lancashire (37-69)

cybertextuality "theorizes the authorial process" by bringing together cybernetics, self-testimony, cognitive psychology and computer-assisted text-analysis (37-8)

"Computer text-analysis (stylistic counts and the repeating patterns in textual concordances) detects what even the author cannot perceive bout himsef: it reveals these chunks in the phrasal vocabularies of authors." (38)

text-analysis software, etc

• "Such tools extend the human mind in uttering. By availing ourselves of them, we bcome cyborgic and partake of the character of a cybernetic organism. Authoring of texts is a recursive process in which hand-shakes cycle between a sender who utters something and a receiver who perceives the sent message and feeds back information about it to the sender." (39)