You may have noticed an addition to my sig, following some research I've been doing on Jacques Derrida.

It means "this is not a signature" - using Magritte's famous line from his painting of a pipe to summarise one of Derrida's claims in his essay Signsponge.

Derrida also uses signatures to weigh in on Reader Response Criticism (the idea that the author is dead and the reader is fundamental to a text), writing that "When I sign, I am already dead" (Glas pg.19).

With Derrida's concepts in mind, can we treat the internet as a text in the same way that we treat books, dreams or the city?

Does the signing of a document relate to death? Or does the refusal to sign a document embody some sort of immortality, of the text or the (non)signer?