ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that text complicates writing as a fixed and normative scholarly practice. Text problematizes premeditated and co-constructed textual production. Maybe it is time to acknowledge presence and absence in the collaborative construction of visual writing. As people may be celebrating more generative and organic forms of scholarly writing, they also are preparing for the funeral of collaborative humanistic and anthropocentric writings. In current virtual and nomadic worlds, writing, writers, and collaboration take different and unanticipated forms including anti- or post-human extensions. By acknowledging these organic and potentially life-like forms of writing, people also aim for the mummification of shared thoughts and mutually co-constructed text. People wonder how one can engage in collaborative writing if the words, ideas, images, or concepts are problematized and they belong to nobody or everybody all at once. Instead of a collaborative writing, this writing is an experiment that extends and challenges rather than confirms or builds.
