The Narrative Units project addresses a number of questions by interconnecting several systems of interest. Information Theory, which strictly concerns itself with the encoding and transmission of data, is displaced into the context of a literary narrative. This framing serves to evoke question surrounding the dispersion of Information Theory and other paradigms of first-wave cybernetics into contemporary culture.

The software pulls texts from Project Gutenberg, then displays them word by word (or letter by letter) within a visualization. It searches for matches to words from an included list of Information Theory definitions. This process controls the display of several short image sequences.

Written in Python. Depends on PyGame, and BeautifulSoup.