This Special Issue of Humanities 6.3 (August 2017) was edited by Andrew Klobucar and Burt Kimmelman. It focuses, in particular, upon the current appropriation of the term and concept of computation within arts and letters, in an effort not only to explore long established confluences between technology and humanist principles (keeping in mind historical notions of computation), but also to note how recent advances in coding have provided writers and artists with key insights into how linguistic structure may influence, and may even possibly determine, cognitive and emotional condi
