Miracles and Mirages of Self-Publishing: "Defacement" as Formal Critique and Subversion

The Case of Christophe Bruno's Dreamlogs
By Étienne Candel
English

MIRACLES AND MIRAGES OF SELF-PUBLISHING: 'DISFIGURATION'? AS FORMAL CRITIQUE AND SUBVERSION The case of Christophe Bruno's Dreamlogs

In this article the author considers the concept of disfiguration, a process of transformation of the pagination, formatting and editorial characteristics of an on-line text, that is, what Yves Jeanneret calls its textualisation. The concept of disfiguration is used to highlight the semiotic impact of editorial enunciation on the Internet. The work studied here, the Dreamlogs of Netartist Christophe Bruno, subverts a canonic form of the blog in a practice of distorted self-publishing. It thus manipulates the Internaut's cognitive routines and, by disfiguring the texts, questions the common practices of writing, reading and interpretation.

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