For the nineteen-sixties were also the decade of the death of the author, a turn of events that Italo Calvino linked explicitly to the ideas of Shannon, Weiner, Turing and von Neumann.In a lecture originally delivered in November of 1967 in Turin and other cities and later published as an essay entitled ???Cybernetics and Ghosts???, Calvino described writing as the work of a servo-mechanism, a goa