In "the spirit of hackification," Haynes and Holmevik re(con)figure the figure that gets to "re/present" the time of "publifying," calling for a shift in metaphors from "crossroads" to "cypherteXts." It's important to re-cognize, however, that this is not merely a trope-switch; indeed, what is at stake in this MOOve exceeds the will-to-figure, the drive toward figuration for the sake of re/presentation. This is crucial: "cypherteXt" operates as a kind of counter-troping trope, a figure of radical nonfigurability that signals the intersections and interactions among "texts, temporality, telegrapher, and technology" (214). The trope of the crossroads propagates the myth of immediacy, of immanent presence, and so protects a naive (and dangerous) faith in the sheer appropriability of meaning and being. The counter-troping trope of the cypherteXt, however, housing as it does an expropriating chiasmus, exposes an irrepresentable imminence (a permanent "to-come") that indicates the radical inappropriability of meaning and being. CypherteXt is no ordinary metaphor; it functions as a condition of possibility for MOOving "into the present and across new codes for living inside publication, but also for publishing that lives at the intersection of a new dis/order of publication" (215). -ddd