Lexia to Perplexia, the artifact work by Talan Memmott exemplifies the concept of assemblage of the human language and the math language signs. As Katherine Hayles explains, this work shows the originality of the digital language in human brain. This Artifact is an electronic text that presents the confusion of the lines between mastering the technology or being part of it. By making technology more natural and the human a more digital creature, it shows how a human is controlled or trapped by the net that he initiated in the first place for his service, or in other words, it reveals the reciprocal relation between human and machines. Beginning by the title, he chooses the terms lexia to perplexia which refers to the difficulty of reading, to hint out the confusion that will face the reader as he moves throughout the parts of the work. This difficulty will not show up from the inability to read the written form in spite of his awkward arrangement of the letters, but rather from being unable to catch up with fast movement of the pieces that are displayed, as well as the way they are layered, and the loss of control over it. Hayles describes the way the reader is overwhelmed by the displayed units and the affect that he can make by a simple movement of his hand.

            This work brings me back to the chapter of the future in literature, although this is not a ‘literary’ digital text, but it reflects the new aspects of the relation between the author and the reader: the way Mammott controls the reader of her text. Hayles states that “digital technologies do more than mark the surface of contemporary print novel. They also put into play dynamics that interrogate and reconfigure the relations between author and reader, human and intelligent machine, code and language”(186).    Hayles conclude her chapter by assuming that although material books will not disappear, but the digital texts is taking a considerable importance in the modern life. although she mentions that printed books will not disappear, but still the one that manages to be performed in a digital media is the one who will get the popularity and a good marketing.