Lexia to Perplexia

Author description: Lexia to Perplexia is a deconstructive/grammatological examination of the "delivery machine." The text of the work falls into the gaps between theory and fiction. The work makes wide use of DHTML and JavaScript. At times its interactive features override the source text, leading to a fragmentary reading experience. In essence, the text does what it says: in that, certain theoretical attributes are not displayed as text but are incorporated into the functionality of the work. Additionally, Lexia to Perplexia explores new terms for the processes and phenomena of attachment. Terms such as "metastrophe" and "intertimacy" work as sparks within the piece and are meant to inspire further thought and exploration. There is also a play between the rigorous and the frivolous in this "exe.termination of terms." The Lexia to Perplexia interface is designed as a diagrammatic metaphor, emphasizing the local (user) and remote (server) poles of network attachment while exploring the "intertimate" hidden spaces of the process.

(Source: Author's description from Electronic LIterature Collection, Volume 1)

Electronic Literature Directory entry:

Electronic Literature Directory entry

I ♥ E-Poetry entry:

I ♥ E-Poetry entry

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Critical writing that references this work:

Title	Author	Year
I Love E-Poetry	Leonardo L. Flores	2011
Immanence, Inc.: Algorithm, Flow, and the Displacement of the Real	Brian Kim Stefans	2018
Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework	Rita Raley	2002
Intimate Mechanics: One Model of Electronic Literature	Stuart Moulthrop	2016
Metaphoric Networks in Lexia to Perplexia	N. Katherine Hayles	2005
Multimedia Criticism	Eric Dean Rasmussen	2003
Narrative and the Split Condition of Digital Textuality	Marie-Laure Ryan	2005
New Media Literary: Hypertextual, Cybertextual, and Networked	Katarina Peovic Vukovic	2008
Poetics in the Expanded Field: Textual, Visual, Digital . . .	Barrett Watten	2006
Posthyperfiction: Practices in Digital Textuality	Scott Rettberg	2015
Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: Rethinking Signification in New Media	N. Katherine Hayles	2004
Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound	Lori Emerson	2014
Reveal Codes: Hypertext and Performance	Rita Raley	2001
Talan Memmott's "Lexia to Perplexia"	Thomas Dreher	2005
Tekstspill i hypertekst. Koherensopplevelse og sjangergjenkjennelse i lesing av multimodale hyperfiksjoner	Hans Kristian Rustad	2008
The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)	John Cayley	2002
Travels in Cybertextuality. The Challenge of Ergodic Literature and Ludology to Literary Theory	Markku Eskelinen	2009
Visualizing la(e)ng(-u-)age	Deena Larsen	2014
Writing Machines	N. Katherine Hayles	2002

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