Meanings
- uncountableA form of creative writing in which the text is mixed with code from various computer languages.
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 media1 more example
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.
2006, Joe Amato, Industrial poetics: demo tracks for a mobile culture
Origin
From code + work, coined by Alan Sondheim.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
codework. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/codework
“codework.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/codework. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “codework,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/codework.
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