Cavafy’s web legacy: C. P. Cavafy in the public sphere of the Web 2.0

This article approaches the social and cultural aspects of engaging with and communicating C. P. Cavafy and his oeuvre in Web 2.0 platforms from an interdisciplinary point of view. By discussing the social web as a new discourse network, the article initially describes how the data architecture of the Web 2.0 ecology reconfigures communicative procedures, relations and roles towards a platformed sociality. It subsequently focuses on ways in which the transformation of the reader/user into a content-producer may enrich the engagement with the Cavafian oeuvre. The notion of digi-formance is also proposed to describe the tropes that the usergenerated content is communicated through Web 2.0 environments, inaugurating a participatory culture and practice based on notions of consumer production, remix and sharing. The article ends by further suggesting how the social web and digital networking technologies could remodel literary sociality, in which the Cavafian oeuvre and scholarship are submerged, within the digital era.