OK, so we have to do better, particularly in a field of cultural production which is constituted by the digital. If our understanding of the digital has been determined by our reading and writing of text, there must surely be greater interplay between artists whose work is and always has been text, and artists who are now working in media where text and its digital, programmable structures are enabling their recent engagements. (See cris cheek's 'must-reads' as a quick start card to encounter contemporary strains/factions in innovative/experimental writing). There seems to be a window of opportunity here. There is, for the record, a tradition of writing where the problematics of so-called 'advanced' literacy are continuously engaged. It's a long-standing tradition, running both parallel and counter-to the mainstream. Recently it has been superbly and substantially documented, from the seminal moment of Mallarmé's 'A Throw of the Dice will never Abolish Chance' in the two-volume anthology edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris, Poems for the Millennium (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995-98).