Beyond the Book: François Bon and the Digital Transition

Such abstracted images of urban reality, with their curious anonymity, frequently take visual form on tierslivre.net.

Given that the blog form implies this immediate connection with both world and audience, it is perhaps surprising that Tumulte repeatedly insists on the writer's need for solitude, describing the long hours spent alone in a room working. Bon is troubled by the way in which the Internet deprives him of silence: "De quel silence vous prive l'Internet si, même si on a organisé de ne voir personne, qu'on est dans sa pièce de travail avec le lit une place et l'ordinateur sur les genoux, on garde la possibilité d'écouter la voix des autres, de recevoir leurs images?" (Tumulte 481).