Intertectuality

Intertextuality seems to an interesting topic for me. When talking about text, I will be expanding it to the greater level which would include anything that has a meaning. Examining how I have treated text (or any other media), I found myself buying into this concept. As Barthes asserts, a particular text is not isolatable from the chain of texts that came before. In my point of view, the chain of texts existed before the current one take a vital part in bringing a specific and unique meaning to the present text. However, I do not think that this concept does not have to be limited to “chronology”. While chronological relations of texts can be described “vertical “, the relationship of a particular text with other texts present at the same time frame can be referred “horizontal”. In the horizontal relationship, one would have a meaning partly because its relationship (opposition, reaction, interaction…) with other existence around it. Writing his blog has evoked me a question: then would there be anything that can be read without any regard to other existence or have a meaning by itself? is it always that one is granted a specific meaning? Can't there be one that can give meaning to itself?