The HyperText Experience

Hypertext similarly emphasizes that the marginal has as much to offer as does the central, in part because hypertext does more than redefine the central by refusing to grant centrality to anything, to any lexia, for more than the time a gaze rests upon it. In hypertext, centrality, like beauty and relevance, resides in the mind of the beholder. Like Andy Warhol's modern person's fifteen minutes of fame, centrality in hypertext exists only as a matter of evanescence. As one might expect from an information medium that changes our relations to data, thoughts, and selves so dramatically, that evanescence of this (ever-migrating) centrality is merely a given - that's the way things are - rather than an occasion for complaint or satire. It is simply the condition under which - or within which - we think, communicate, or record these thoughts and communications in the hypertextual docuverse.

Landow, George P. Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of
Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore:
John Hopkins University Press, 1997. p. 89.