Unaware, Crystal Gatton and Naphtali Barsky posting to Blackboard answering the question of “Personal Reading Practices for Pleasure” (probably data collection for a peer's "History of This Space") stimulate and fuel my idea for making the re-contextualization of authorless text not only as a webpage, but also as a non-linear text argument turning control of the reading path to the consumer.

The Non-linear text argument should not be confused with Roland Barthes’ essay/argument Myth Today. The difference is Roland Barthes was French. The method of constructing an argument in French is different from the American Academic method of constructing an argument. The American style follows the format of science writing: An introduction to the argument where the author(s) provide background in what they intend to argue and a well constructed Thesis statement clearly stating what the author(s) argue. The body of the argument follows next with all of its support and rebuttals and last a conclusion about what has been argued. Because Roland Barthes was writing in French and using the French style of argumentation, his premise and thesis were buried back at page 18 of his argument.

The subject matter of Barthes argument on who is in a better political position to support a "myth" using visual literacy methods to create meaning-making (the sign, the signed, the signified) was painful enough to understand. As a class, we did not realize our difficulty in understanding his argument also stemmed from an argument arrangement writing style we were not familiar with.