Poetry has long aspired to philosophy. Digital poetry, and poetry that engages seriously with the architectural features of computing, extends this ancient desideratum. I think of farrell’s {organismalgorithm} as a timely philosophical meditation, but perhaps most of all as a dramatic enactment of how online reading environments and the coding which undergirds them reshape our organs of perception, often reducing us, as Paul Virilio once wrote, to “vision machines,” if not reading machines and thinking machines as well—spiritual automatons. If an algorithm could speak, what would it say? (In the spirit of his playful work I posed this question to farrell a number of years ago). I think it might lyricize a bit like Gertrude Stein who, given her devotions to grammar, a kind of proto-coding, seems a fitting chorus for this book. -Thom Donovan