Using the results of a qualitative research study, this webtext theorizes ways to resolve the quantum indeterminacy of online learning spaces in ways that serve social justice efforts. The webtext's design encourages readers to engage with content in varied, unpredictable ways, mirroring the ways that digital learning spaces are experienced in single-multiple ways.

A digital text adventure, a topographical survey, a chorus of violence: perimortem [in (theoretical) rigor] is a creative-critical parser game that enacts Eelam Tamil diasporic-disabled repairing composition, extending Trammell's (2023) "repairing play": a Black phenomenology of play that begins with the idea that torture is play for people of color who share collective histories and ongoing experiences of racial and ethnic violence. Mapped using kolam geometry, perimortem is a parser game designed to simulate the pleasurable and painful affects of composition and challenge the Euro-Western moral and aesthetic aversion to tortured embodiment in scholarly writing by explicitly, interactively illustrating the presence of torture-and/as-play in academia.

Winners of the Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia L. Selfe Caring for the Future Scholarship share their experiences and their suggestions for increasing diversity and inclusion in the Computers and Writing community.

Methodologically, this webtext takes up a diversity of modes of making, documenting and reflecting on this shared learning journey, including photography, interviews, participant observation, and a documentary film. This is conveyed through a spatial rhetoric that is designed to evince and allow access to different thematics and elements in the interface so that readers—students, educators, researchers—may differentially traverse the multimodal account of the learning journey.