Walter J. Ong suggests in Orality and Literacy that computers encourage a return to many of the mind habits of oral literature. As they return to modes of communal art that predate literacy, they move beyond the concern with author and ownership that characterizes the culture of the book.

O.B. Hardison, Jr., Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century

 

Hypertext makes clear a fact that was often noticed before it appeared on the scene. We are coming to the end of the culture of the book. Books are still produced and read in prodigious numbers, and they will continue to be as far into the future as we can imagine. However, they do not command the center of the cultural stage. Modern culture is taking shapes that are more various and more complicated than the book-centered culture it is succeeding.

O.B. Hardison, Jr., Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century

Syntax yields to parataxis [...].

Eva Hesse, "Introduction," New Approaches to Ezra Pound

 

Alone in deserts of Parchment
Theoreticians of the Modern

-emending annotating inventing
World as rigorously related System

Susan Howe, Singularities