Barthes, Roland. “From Work to Text” Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Poststructuralist Criticism. Ed. Josue V. Harari. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979: 73-81. Print.
An important reference for citing the changing position of the reader in the act of reading and important to note this in House of Leaves.

Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacres et simulation. Galilee, Paris, 1981.
Concept of implosion of poles critical, important as well because Baudrillard is writing about a type of code as well (DNA).

Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. Trans. Harry Zohn. Ed. Hannah Arendt. New York: Harcourt Books, 1968. Print.
A couple of key insights into architecture as mass conciousness needed for examining processes in House of Leaves.

Bhabha, Homi. “DissemiNation: Time, Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation.” Nation and Narration. London: Routledge, 1990.
A good source that offers a different conception of nation-construction. Denounces imperialism through emphasizing performative principles of the nation.

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990. Print.
Great source for reading gender through a semiotic system invested with various forces. Necessary to emphasize that even stability (in this case biological) is an arena of compulsive heterosexuality, something that goes unchallenging in this texts.

Danielewski, Mark Z.. Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. Random House, Inc., 2000.
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Derrida, Jacques. "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences." Writing and Difference. London: Routledge, 1967.
An essay that will be referenced many times. The insights he provides into teleology and its weakness its necessary for this paper and a major theme

Gibson, William. "Burning Chrome." Burning Chrome. New York: Arbor House, 1986. Print.
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Hayles, Katherine. Writing Machines. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2002. Print.
Both A Primary Source and reference text. Important for discussion of Lexia to Perplexia.

Kirschenbaum, Mathew G.. "Extreme Inscription: Towards a Grammatology of the Hard Drive." TEXT Technology: The Journal of Computer Text Processing. 31.2 (2004).
This attempt at applying Grammer to hardware shows how identity is built through grammar in interesting ways.

Jameson, Frederic. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Greensborough, NC: Duke University Press, 1991. Print.
A couple of important references, specifically his concepts about architecture will be crucial in subsection two.

Mitchell, W. J. T. "Metapictures." Picture Theory. Chicago and London:University of Chicago Press, 1994.
His flexible definition of pictures will help to draw the connection between image and structured object (in a digital terrain).

Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books, 1993. Print.
The idea of a dialogue of narratives is a great productive model available for digital technologies. Offers an appropriate approach that can be applied to this digital landscape that also includes complex cultural exchanges.

Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon. Harper Collins, 2000.
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