Circulation dynamic of texts published on the Internet resembles the medieval and Renaissance practice of glossing, parodying, or otherwise altering a manuscript before passing it along.
Slowly, though, the fixity and ubiquity of print have unfortunately eradicated such practices, all but banishing the notion of a collaborative, textually permeable work. Now, the cult of the author and the printing press are still inextricably linked; you can't have one without the other. By chance, digital text, however, requires neither.
As a consequence, and much to the chagrin of political critics, no economic model has yet been devised to explain its production and propagation in a capitalist society.
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