Texts, literary corpora and new electronic technologies of cultural transmission

The Digital Revolution has helped us look back at the book and printed matt er in general as technologies of cultural transmission. But the question is : what will the Republic of Letters of the future look like when the litera ry corpora and the tools for teaching and research will be remediated by co mputers and electronic networks? The Theory of Hypertexts does not address this question and can't help us evaluate the status of texts in the knowled ge economy. This article proposes to study the socio-technical construction of our remediated corpora and tools and suggests that literary workers inc lude it in their study of the history of literature.