Roy Ascott’s La Plissure du Texte: Towards some elements of a user’s manual

This article proposes a rereading of Roy Ascott’s La Plissure du Texte, not as has been remade and updated in La Plissure du Texte 2 (a recent Second Life reinterpretation of this pioneering work of collaborative digital writing), but as a cultural practice and artefact deeply rooted in time, and hence affected and transformed by contextual features, such as the shifting meanings of the work’s major theoretical references, namely, Roland Barthes and his ideas on the pleasure of the text and Surrealism and its use of anti-authoritative games such as the exquisite corpse.