"The standard view in contemporary analytic aesthetics is that a work is partially constituted by prescriptions about what its users must do in order to encounter that work. [...] This kind of view is sometimes called a prescriptive ontology, which means the prescriptions help constitute the very artwork itself. The novel Moby Dick isn't just the words on the page; it is the words as experienced under the prescription to read them in order. If I read all the words of Moby Dick in a random order, I wouldn't have read Moby Dick"

- C. Thi Nguyen, Games, Agency as Art