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codework

codework noun: a form of creative writing in which the text is mixed with code from various computer languages.

Noun

codework (uncountable)

  1. A form of creative writing in which the text is mixed with code from various computer languages.
    • If readers and writers have become (let's say) producers and receivers, then generic and formal and career distinctions—poetry v. prose v. codework, blog v. LiveJournal, scholarship v. journalism, fact v. hearsay, amateur v. professional—fall by the wayside as the emphasis lands more on...2006, Joe Amato, Industrial poetics: demo tracks for a mobile culture
    • Mckenzie Wark and Alan Sondheim's theory of codework is helpful as well in understanding how poetic acts of articulation can resist any representational reduction or simplification through their virtual-codings or experience-possibilities in new-media practice:2007, Tom O'Connor, Poetic acts and new media

Origin of codework

From code + work, coined by Alan Sondheim.

Questions about codework

What does codework mean?
Codework means a form of creative writing in which the text is mixed with code from various computer languages.
What part of speech is codework?
Codework is a noun.

Words near codework in the dictionary

  1. codevelopments
  2. codevelops
  3. codewise
  4. codeword
  5. codewords
  6. codework
  7. codex
  8. codexes
  9. codfish
  10. codfish aristocracies
  11. codfish aristocracy

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