The Performance of the Appearing. Remarks about the Dramatisation of Writing under the Terms of the Internet

The change from a publication system, that is centred around the concept of the printed book to a completely electronical one, concerns not only the aspect off distributing texts but also opens the view on the performative quality of writing itself. Relevant within this aspect are technical prerequisites as well as the evolving habits of type-writing 'on' the Internet where the written appears instantly on surfaces that are not taken as book's pages but as a scene to perform on. This paper sketches the relevant aspects of the Internet as the technical base and analyzes Current examples in order to render more precisely the recurrence of the author, as the player of his text, (in its full ambiguity) On the scene called Internet.