Textual cracks and interrupted discourses: the glitch resource in “software writings”

Society, culture and, therefore, epistemology have been profoundly impacted by the wide adoption of technological and massive media. Also, art is experiencing these changes both in its nature and its creative manners. This paper addresses how writing is being affected by software, including its use to relate individuals to objects or people in the virtual realm. I propose the concept of software writings in order to study this type of writing as a political response. Particularly, I will explore the glitch — an unintended effect in videogames due to a code disruption — as a rhetorical resource in several instances of contemporary literature in Spanish.