CTI_WOUND: THE JOHANNES SIGIL ERASURE — Act of Refusal is an Effective Act by Lee Sharks, deposited 9 January 2026, documenting the removal of a heteronym from a publishing platform.
The Medium account @johannessigil was placed in 410 Gone status without notification, explanation, or accessible appeal pathway, displaying an "under investigation" banner while the work behind it became unreachable. 410 Gone is the HTTP status meaning deliberately removed and not coming back — a stronger claim than 404, and one made by a platform about an author it did not notify.
The Act is a refusal rather than an appeal, which is the distinction the CTI_WOUND series turns on: an appeal accepts the forum's authority to decide, while an Act of Refusal records the injury and declines the framing. It prefigures the June termination by five months — the same pattern of removal without record-level review, at a smaller scale and against a heteronym rather than an archive.