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English

Etymology

From code + work, coined by Alan Sondheim.

Noun

codework (uncountable)

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  1. A form of creative writing in which the text is mixed with code from various computer languages.
    • 2006, Joe Amato, Industrial poetics: demo tracks for a mobile culture:
      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 potentialities of reading and writing.
    • 2007, Tom O'Connor, Poetic acts and new media:
      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:
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