Transformation of the textuality paradigm in the digital world

The article analyzes the unique status of Text as the ontological core of the nonlinear dimensions in contemporary digital communication. The methodological focus of the research is placed on interdisciplinary projects, specifically structuralist-phenomenological, logical-analytical, culturalphilosophical, hermeneutic-ontological, and comparative approaches. The process of exploration reactualizes post-structuralism and philosophical hermeneutics as significant paradigms of the 20th century, characterized by text-centrism. The logic of the research relies on the epistemological characteristics of the concept of Text, which represents the nonlinearity of contemporary digital reality. The article substantiates this thesis through the practical application of the phenomenological method of ahistorical reconstruction. The designated model of analysis demonstrates both the classical linear status of the text (in the sense of a cognitive model for describing or corresponding to any fragment of reality) and its hypertextual, nonlinear, and therefore hyperceptive construct in contemporary digital communicative models. The aforementioned strategies recontextualize the concept of Text, expanding it to an ontological object of cognition, which implies the necessity of rethinking the status of Text between ontology, epistemology, and linguistics. The article places an emphasis on hypertext as a cognitive and communicative model, which is essentially a practical projection of the nonlinearity of contemporary thinking. It summarizes the reflexive necessity of recognizing a new perspective (in the sense of an epistemological “shift”) of human thought in digital society, manifested through a cognitive transition from a linear way of perceiving reality to a volumetric hyperceptive one. This very thesis is marked as significant for the research in the global transformation of network communication models. The article ultimately places an emphasis on the heuristic significance of the nonlinear paradigm of textuality, both in digital communication in general and in the humanities in particular.