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 Howe, Daniel C., and John Cayley. 'The Readers Project: Procedural Agents and Literary Vectors.'
 Leonardo 44.4 (August 2011): 317-24.

 • MIT Press
 online site with abstract 

 • PDF 

 • Copy of the version
 of record in the Brown Digital Repository 

 Howe, Daniel C., and John Cayley. 'Reading, Writing, and Resisting: Literary Appropriation in The Readers
 Project.' International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA). Eds. Kathy Cleland, Laura Fisher and Ross
 Harley. Sydney: ISEA International, the Australian Network for Art & Technology and the University of
 Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9708 .

 • Copy of the
 version of record in the Brown Digital Repository 

 Cayley, John. 'Beginning with 'the Image' in How It Is When Translating Certain Processes of Digital
 Language Art.' Translating E-Lit (2014): Winter 2014, forthcoming on the site of the Université,
 Paris 8.

 • Author accepted
 manuscript in the Brown Digital Repository 

 Cayley, John. 'Writing to Be Found and Writing Readers.' Digital Humanities Quarterly 5.3 (2011): http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/3/000104/000104.html .

 Cayley, John. 'Terms of Reference & Vectoralist Transgressions: Situating Certain Literary Transactions
 over Networked Services.' Amodern 2 (2013): http://amodern.net .

 • Author accepted
 manuscript in the Brown Digital Repository 

 Cayley, John. 'N-gram.' The John Hopkins Guide to Digital Media . Eds. Marie-Laure Ryan, Lori Emerson
 and Benjamin J. Robertson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 358-59.

 • PDF 

 In Books

 Andersen, Christian Ulrik, and Søren Bro Pold. The Metainterface: The Art of Platforms, Cities, and
 Clouds. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2018. Discusses The Readers Project pp. 61-64, and How It
 Is in Common Tongues pp. 64-69.

 Emerson, Lori. Reading Writing Interfaces : From the Digital to the Bookbound . Electronic
 Mediations. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014, pp. 183-84.

   "John Cayley and Daniel C. Howe's How It Is in Common Tongues 
 is intensely concerned with drawing attention to the profound influence of Google's search engine and how
 it works on readingwriting practices. ... a disruptive response to the computing industry's insistent
 drive to create devices that are nearly invisible."

 Johnston, David Jhave. Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry’s Ontological Implications . Cambridge:
 MIT Press, 2016, pp. 111-12.
   " The Readers Project reflects the urgent necessity for creative
 authors to write the autonomous writers who will read for us. It does so formally and numinously, words
 drifting and vanishing in modernist cascade ..."

 Portela, Manuel. Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive
 Machines . Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013, pp. 343-47.

   "Paths and patterns that highlight words and phrases within a preexisting
 text give viewers a representation of acts of reading as performative or deformative interventions that
 establish their cognitive and perceptual associations with the textual field. ... Because every machine
 reading is also a new instance of writing available for a human reader, the act of reading the machine
 reading becomes a model for the infinite iterability of writing as actualized by each reading act."

 The Readers Project , ELMCIP Record ,
 2013.

 Remediating the Social . Ed. Simon Biggs. Edinburgh: ELMCIP, 2012. Link to the spread representing the Common
 Tongues installation . And in this collection, see: Biggs, Simon. 'The Hyperstitial Poetics Of
 Net-Work Media.' p. 161.

 Rettberg, Scott. Electronic Literature . Cambridge and Medford: Polity Press, 2019. The are many
 mentions of my work and theoretical writing throughout this exemplary introduction to the field. In
 particular, windsound is discussed p. 136; with The Readers Project and especially How
 It Is in common tongues featured pp. 179-80.

 Ricardo, Franciso J. The Engagement Aesthetic: experiencing new media art through critique .
 International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics 4. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. See: pp. 176-81 of chapter
 14 in the section of this book that considers 'Engagement as Post-Literary Mechanism'.

 Schäfer, Jörgen. 'Netzliteratur.' Handbuch Medien Der Literatur . Eds. Natalie Binczek, Till
 Dembeck and Jörgen Schäfer. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. 481-501.

 Tanasescu, Ralua, and Chris Tanasescu, eds. Margento: “Us” Poets Foreign Poets: A Computationally
 Assembled Anthology = Margento: Noi Poeti “Americani” Poeti Strani: Antologie Asamblata
 Computational . Bucharest: Editura frACTalia, 2018. Contains translations into Romanian of output:
 John Cayley & Daniel C. Howe ‘The Readers’ = ‘Cititorii’ pp. 70-77.

 Andersen, C. U., & Pold, S. B. ' Post-digital Books and Disruptive Literary Machines .' ELO 2013 Conference paper.

 Pisarski, Mariusz. ‘ Poetics in Action: Time and Code in the Poetry of John Cayley and the Poets of
 RozdzielczośĆ Chleba.’ Forum Poe­t­yki = Forum of Poetics Spring/Summer (2016): 6-19 (accessed July
 13, 2018).
   "As a practitioner (a publisher and producer) of electronic literature, I
 have not encountered a more complex and radical work in recent years than the series of poetic programs
 prepared by John Cayley and Daniel C. Howe that constitute the cycle The Readers Project 
 (2010–2016). Individual instalments of this long-term project contain the whole gamut of complexity that
 code in its proper function brings to poetry and poetics: the programmable function of transforming a
 poem’s content, style, rhetoric, and context." (13)

 Portela, Manuel. 'Scripts for Infinite Reading', Electronic Literature Organization conference
 Chercher le Texte , Université Paris 8, 2013. Documented in the ELMCIP Knowledge Base.

 Online

 How It Is in Common Tongues on
 UBUWeb 

 How It Is in Common Tongues for Chercher le
 Texte, Paris 2013 

 Writing to be Found in Common Tongues at HASTAC 2013 

 Nick Montfort's Radical
 Books of 2012 

   "Some seek diamonds in the rough on the Web; others mine from this lode of
 language mud and darkness. This profound document was fashioned with snippets of pages, with the search
 engine, and with the novel first published as Comment c’est - using all of them quite
 perversely."

 How It Is in Common Tongues in The
 Piracy Project Collection 

 How It Is in Common Tongues in The Library of the Printed Web 

 ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base :

 • The Readers Project 

 • Common Tongues 

 • How It Is in Common Tongues 

 • The Image 

 The Readers Project at MIT 2010 

 The Readers Project at DAC
 2009