"John Cayley makes language art using programmable media. Daniel C. Howe writes natural and unnatural language as a means for exploring the social and political implications of networked technology, specifically concerning privacy, surveillance, and human rights."
"This suite of 'readers' are programs that allow you to experience works in ways that have been shaped by the authors. Since texts in digital media are stored in binary code, there are many layers of software and hardware intervening before they are displayed. Howe and Cayley offer unique readers that produce algorithmic reading experiences. The project includes a downloadable Java program informed by Howe's RiTa framework which offers three readers to traverse two texts written by John Cayley. Another outcome from this project is How It Is in Common Tongues an algorithmic reading, reconstruction, and reproduction of Samuel Beckett's How It Is. This project shows how electronic literature can serve as a kind of digital humanities, by informing and creating computational perspectives on close and distant readings of texts." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3
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The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 3
Published in 2016 by Electronic Literature Organization.
The ELO gave this copy of the work to the Electronic Literature Lab in 2018.
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