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III:14.  The problematization of the (unitary) identity, intentionality, presence or, indeed, existence of author(ity) is already addressed in the disruption of closure which hypertext proposes, although the composition of the elements (lexia) of most currently existing hypertextual work follows, for the most part, a conventional, “authoritarian” model. The construction of procedural, generative work in cybertext does, however, help to represent and generalize a disrupted, mediated, undermined authorship, or, as some critics have recognized, a notion of “cyborg authorship,” meaning one in which engineered reading or text-generation procedures are recognized as partly “responsible” for the work and in which the human participant acknowledges the procedural itself as as an aspect of her identity. [CYBORG]

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