A personal announcement.
The book "Nouveaux medias, nouveaux languages, nouvelles écritures" (New medias, new languages, new writings) will be presentated in Marseille, the 11 January (Friche de la Belle de Mai, 18 h 30) and in Paris, the 23 January (Centre National des Lettres, 18 h 30).
I shall be at the parisian presentation for having contributed to this book with an essay untitled "Idea of the reader".
In this essay, I try to establish what we may define as a digital reading, by a sort of actualization of the classic functionalities of reading. Then I propose to institute a new right: "Right of the reader". At last four moves are pointed: from text to reading, from reading to reader, from reader to readers, from readers to the new cultural subjectivities.
The text presents or discusses the theories or points of view of Michel Foucault ("Technologies of the self"), and also Pamela Samuelson and Richard Stallman ("Le droit de lire", The right to read).
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