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VII:35. [Finally, in this brief and partial sketch,] cybertextual technologies offer a
potential form of pure literacy with a (currently limited) capacity to, itself, perform. The performance
of literary objects may be read back into both the pure literacy of the silent text and also into text-based
performance writing, but cybertextual technologies already exist which, as mentioned above, animate
the generation of procedural and chance modulated work in “real time.” Although there is
a long way to go before such literary objects display any depth in their appropriation of, say, the less
exploited terms in Aarseth’s analysis of textuality, existing works have invoked dynamics,
indeterminability, transience, random access, linking, reader configuration and reader co-creation of
textual elements. [MODULATED] The potential for the interaction of literary objects with
both readers and also the third term, programmers, is not closed, and will continue to problematize the
role of the author, who may also be an interactive reader or programmer. In the last analysis, the
meaning-creation of the work is provided by the performance of the literary object itself.
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