Grammalepsy

John Cayley is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University, USA. He has practiced as a poet, translator, publisher, and bookdealer, practices which have often intersected with his training in Chinese culture and language. In addition to his internationally recognized writing on networked and programmable media, he has written two printed books of poetic work, Ink Bamboo (1996) and Image Generation (2015).

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Grammalepsy01. Beyond Codexspace: Potentialities of Literary Cybertext02. Pressing the “Reveal Code” Key03. Of Programmatology04. The Code Is Not the Text (Unless It Is the Text)05. Hypertext/Cybertext/Poetext06. Writing on Complex Surfaces07. Time Code Language08. The Gravity of the Leaf09. Writing to Be Found and Writing Readers10. Weapons of the Deconstructive Masses11. Terms of Reference & Vecotralist Transgressions12. Reading and Giving / Voice and Language13. Reconfiguration14. An Instance of Aurature at the End(s) of Electronic LiteratureBibliographyNotes

An essential book for many reasons. The quality of the author’s theoretical sharpness and reflection is of course one of them, and one will find in this book an in-depth but often somewhat polemic dialogue with all the major critics and theoreticians in the field ... One can only be admiring of the pioneering and visionary dimension of these essays, often much ahead of their times.