Repetição e instrução: para uma crítica da (in)operatividade cibertextual

Abstract

This article aims to make a contribution towards a critique of cybertextual (in) operativity, framed by the notion of cybertextuality, and outlined through two concepts or, more specifically, two operations: repetition and instruction. Drawing on this conceptual matrix, as well as on debates that are taking place in areas such as literary theory, textuality, contemporary art, and technology and media theory, cibertextuality's programmatic, diagrammatic, cybernetic, algorithmic, and computational will be addressed. We will begin with an analysis of certain constraints of the group OuLiPo - questioning Goerges Perec's La Vie mode d'emploi (1978) and Italo Calvino's Comment j'ai écrit un de mes livres (1987; 1984). Afterwards, we will reflect on works such as ÁRVORE (2018) by Rui Torres, Joana Moll's DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST (2016), degenerative (2005) and AMAZON (2019) by Eugenio Tisselli, and Joana Chicau's Tango For Us Two/Too (2019; 2022). Finally, in the wake of these reflections, we will conclude with a plea for cyberliteracy.