By recontextualizing quotes gleaned from various sources in a palimpsestuous accumulation of “old” and “new” text, "La littérature au second degré" questions whether reading and research can be considered forms of writing. The selected quotes each share a word respectively with a selection of poetry from Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s seminal work "Dictée", which allows a new poem to be read through the relationship between the source text and its annotations. "La littérature" invites the viewer to participate in the citational process, drawing personal references between the hypertextual poem, book sculpture, and their own specific readership.