just reflect or record the world: rather, it shapes it, so that how we see is what we see". This is closely linked to "post-structuralism" which is in fact, closely linked also to textuality. And Barry believes that the "post-structuralist maintains that the consequences of this belief are that we enter a universe of radical uncertainty…". Derrida further states: "This teleology leads to the interpretation of all eruptions of the nonphonetic within writing as transitory crises and accidents of passage, and it is right to consider this teleology to be a Western ethnocentrism, a premathematical primitivism, and a preformalist intuitionism." In short, textuality is an individual and uncertain skill that will always be read and interpreted in texts in different ways, by different people, and at different times. It is a literary tool that can never be defined like an exact science and that will always be influenced by the writer's life, such as, their upbringing, education, culture, age, religion, gender, and multiple other persuading factors. In the media Textuality can be seen, heard, read, and interacted with. Each of the three forms of medium – oral, print, and electronic – has a different form of textuality that reflects the way the sensory modalities are stimulated. An example of textuality in the oral medium is the sound itself. An example of textuality in the print medium is the physicality of a book. An example of textuality in the electronic medium is the interactivity of a website, or visual of a specific television show. See also Text Intertextuality Hypertextuality References Terms in literary theory Structuralism