ego def/ILLUSION is a recurring imprint-like or production-company form in the JQD corpus. It appears in mastheads beside other entities such as STIHILIST, Saurian Skies and Xenochroma, and is visually echoed in the EGOTERRORISM liner image for “M.M.T.” as an “Ego Def recordings / ILLUSION Music Group” mark.
Institution as persona
The name exemplifies a recurring technique: instead of maintaining one stable author credit, the work creates corporate, label and pseudo-legal containers around itself. These entities can be jokes, real distribution labels, fictional companies, or all three at different moments.
Relation to EGOTERRORISM
The title EGOTERRORISM already splits “EGO” from “TERRORISM” and “ERRORISM.” Ego Def/ILLUSION adds another self-negating institutional layer: ego is branded, then “def”-ed, then absorbed into illusion.