The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text)

An essay considering the nature of "codework" and arguing against the collapse of "code" and "text" into one category. Cayley considers the different modes of reading involved in reading works that may be read both as computational artifacts and as works of literature.

Works referenced:

Title	Author	Year
Lexia to Perplexia	Talan Memmott	2000
_the data][h!][bleeding texts_	Mez Breeze	2001

Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
Born Digital: Writing Poetry in the Age of New Media	Maria Engberg		2007
Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations	Roberto Simanowski	University of Minnesota Press	2011
Digital Literature: Theoretical and Aesthetic Reflections	Luciana Gattass		2011
Digital Rhetoric and Poetics: Signifying Strategies in Electronic Literature	Talan Memmott		2011
Electronic Literature	Scott Rettberg	Polity	2018
Electronic Literature as World Literature; or, The Universality of Writing under Constraint	Joseph Tabbi	Poetics Today	2010
How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis	N. Katherine Hayles	Routledge	1997
Inner Workings: Code and Representations of Interiority in New Media Poetics	John Cayley	Dichtung Digital	2003
Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework	Rita Raley	Electronic Book Review (ebr)	2002
Poetry and Stuff: A Review of '#!'	John Cayley	Electronic Book Review (ebr)	2015
Posthumanism and Electronic Literature	Kent Aardse		2014
Tekstspill i hypertekst. Koherensopplevelse og sjangergjenkjennelse i lesing av multimodale hyperfiksjoner	Hans Kristian Rustad		2008

Teaching Resource using this Critical Writing:

Resource	Teaching Resource Type	Author	Year
Digital Literature (Engl 391, Fall 2008)	Syllabus, Lesson plan	Jessica Pressman	2008

Research Collection that references this Critical Writing:

Title
Codework
Electronic Literature, Chapter 1: Genres of Electronic Literature
Electronic Literature, Chapter 6: Network Writing

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Rita Raley