Pressman, Jessica2022-01-062022-01-062007https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/18666This essay reads a work of electronic literature that does not display code onscreen but which intervenes in discussions of code vs. screenic text in electronic literature criticism. Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Nippon presents a juxtaposition of English and Japanese onscreen, an aesthetic of deconstruction that promotes a similar critical approach to examining the boundary between onscreen text and programming code. Instead of addressing what code does for our readings of electronic literature, I argue that works like Nippon prompt us to consider what electronic literature does for our readings of code.engCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Genericdigital literaturetextualitysource code79110.25969/mediarep/177031617-6901