In 1988, back when text games were still commercially popular, even though many companies were going under at that time, postmodernist scholar Linda Hutcheon noted what she called "a dethroning of suspect authority" and also "a renewed aesthetic and theoretical interest in the interactive powers involved in the production and reception of texts" (Postmodern Culture 77). She was referring to literature in general -- novels that fall apart, novels that address the reader, novels that end up referring to the process of writing the book that you're holding in your hand, that kind of blurring the line between the reader and the author. She cited interactive fiction as what she called "The most extreme example I can think of that illustrates this parallel post-modern tendency." That is, a dethroning of authority (a little play on the word there -- author, authority), and paying attention to interactivity.