New Criticals


What is digital writing? Computer writing? It must be cryptographic - what is the cipher? Writing is representation; most writing is, it seems, inherently intelligible. How do we read digitally? Digital writing is foundationally numbered. Our digital writing is all numbers, all code. We scribe in numbers. We write in a sophisticated cryptography that breaks itself as it is written. The code and cipher are programmed to unfold automatically as one. The Matrix shamefully Orientalized data, visualized it all wrong. It's symbolic, to be sure, but not Other. Haunted by the computer curser, flashing interminably. What does it signal? This machine is in your world, in your home, in your bed already, breaking and reforming language before returning it, re-representing it back to you - faster, better. How intelligible is it?