We, the unknown, in the wide web

Abstract

The Twentieth First Century comes with the marks of silicon in its veins, wrapped up in the ideals of liberty based on the explosion of communication technologies, especially those which offer speed, mobility and ubiquity. The global village and the internet would be the stars of a new time-space and of modernity-world, in which barriers, differences and distances appear diluted. In such a context emerges the electronic textuality, remodeling the reading and writing processes as we know them. The knots that tie those who get caught in that web are as complex as the connection between links in the internet-galaxy; complex, above all, due to the multilinear topology that the web inaugurates, to the fragmentation of the senses that it causes and to the erasing of the socio-historic conditions of production of the statements it promotes. The present paper questions some of these issues while adopting French Discourse Analysis (DA) as the theoretical reference in the analysis of the site “Eu odeio o MST”.