HTMLK — Markup for Martin
Published by Mark Marino January 15th, 2007 in code, poetry, Poetics, Features, Conferences.
At MLA 2007 in Philadelphia, John Cayley introduced the idea of an “ideal syntax,” the parole that adheres to the langue or the code that will compile. It is this “ideal syntax” that many codeworks are writing against, disrupting, challenging, and distorting. Therefore, by not compiling, codeworks may be fighting the protocols. In that spirit, I present a draft of a markup poem I’ve been working on in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday.
So as not to break our feed with this resistant code, I will post a link here to the current version. WRT: Are their other code-based tributes to MLK, a man who has been added to the Federal Google Calendar but cannot be so easily compiled or processed?
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Lovely Mark! Very clever. :)
This is made obsolete by Malcolm X’s markup language: XHTML.
It was pointed out to me on ifMUD that this language may have been obsoleted by the markup language for Malcolm X … XHTML.
Perhaps we could all just get along with an XMLK-compliant common language!