Difference between revisions of "Cyberspace"
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| − | Of course, I am not against the new. I am, indeed, almost tempted to repeat Virginia Woolf. I think it was in 1914 when she said it was as though eternal human nature had changed. To be a man no longer means the same thing. One should not, for example, underestimate the inter-subjective social impact of cyberspace. What we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being. | + | Of course, I am not against the new. I am, indeed, almost tempted to [[repeat]] Virginia Woolf. I [[think]] it was in 1914 when she said it was as though eternal [[human]] [[nature]] had changed. To be a man no longer means the same [[thing]]. One should not, for example, underestimate the inter-[[subjective]] [[social]] impact of cyberspace. What we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human [[being]]. |
| − | Take strange phenomena, like what we see on the internet. There are so-called 'cam' websites where people expose to an anonymous public their innermost secrets down to the most vulgar level. You have websites today — even I, with all my decadent tastes, was shocked to learn this — where people put a video-camera in their toilets, so you can observe them defecating. This a totally new constellation. It is not private, but also it is also not public. It is not the old exhibitionist gesture. | + | Take strange phenomena, like what we see on the internet. There are so-called 'cam' websites where [[people]] expose to an anonymous [[public]] their innermost secrets down to the most vulgar level. You have websites today — even I, with all my decadent tastes, was shocked to learn this — where people put a video-camera in their toilets, so you can observe [[them]] defecating. This a totally new constellation. It is not private, but also it is also not public. It is not the old exhibitionist gesture. |
| − | <ref>The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other</ref> | + | <ref>The One Measure of [[True]] [[Love]] Is: You Can Insult the [[Other]]</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 04:57, 24 May 2019
Of course, I am not against the new. I am, indeed, almost tempted to repeat Virginia Woolf. I think it was in 1914 when she said it was as though eternal human nature had changed. To be a man no longer means the same thing. One should not, for example, underestimate the inter-subjective social impact of cyberspace. What we are witnessing today is a radical redefinition of what it means to be a human being.
Take strange phenomena, like what we see on the internet. There are so-called 'cam' websites where people expose to an anonymous public their innermost secrets down to the most vulgar level. You have websites today — even I, with all my decadent tastes, was shocked to learn this — where people put a video-camera in their toilets, so you can observe them defecating. This a totally new constellation. It is not private, but also it is also not public. It is not the old exhibitionist gesture. [1]
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