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'Inner
Workings' addresses itself to the methods,
properties and practices of writing systems,
including human writing systems, whose very
signifiers are programmed. What does programmed
signification tell us about the inner human writing
machine? John Cayley's essay participates in
relevant metacritical and metapsychological
discussions - reexamining Freud's Mystic Writing
Pad in particular - and is specifically sited
within the context of debates on code and codework
in literal art. Rather than revealed interiority,
code is the archive and guarantee of inner workings
than reside beneath the complex surfaces of poetics
in programmable media.
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