Seduced & Abandoned The Body in the Virtual World - The Feminine Cyberspace

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• 00:00:30

  too many pieces of paper and not enough time. So I'm going to go for the information density approach and throw lots of things out, but as people know, I will be here all weekend, so I hope there'll be lots of time for discussion, both after I've finished just now and also over the rest of the weekend. There's…

• 00:07:46

  The woman is neither man-made or somehow man's other. She's not biologically fixed from an essentialist point of view, nor is she sort of wholly absent and not there at all with the Lacanians and the deconstructionists. Instead she is actually in the process, in a process, which has been going on for some time. This…

• 00:12:43

  But I want to suggest that in fact the Baudrillards of this world will wish it was indeed that simple. It would be very nice, I think, he'll end up thinking, if he was in fact abandoned by all these processes. But in fact man is not abandoned but hooked. It turns out that he too is a machine component of the processes…

• 00:19:17

  They acquire a less viscous consistency, and your brain becomes a supercomputer. Another quote from Snow Crash. That's a hypercard. I thought you said Snow Crash was a drug, Hero says, totally nonplussed. It is, the guy says. Try it. Does it fuck up your brain, Hero says, or your computer? Both. Neither. What's…

• 00:24:23

  A little quote from Mona Lisa Overdrive from William Gibson. Her father, long ago in Arizona, had cautioned her against jacking in. You don't need it, he'd said. And she hadn't, because she dreamed cyberspace, as though the neon grid lines of the Matrix waited for her behind her eyelids. If this was the case…

• 00:32:57

  And what you're proposing is that women can actually sort of hide away in cyberspace and become androgynes that don't actually sort of function in a human way but just become rather shallow and very, very, I must say, very sad. Thank you. All right, if this is true then, is it desirable? The reaction from the platform…

• 00:38:31

  Do I want this? You know, what identity has wanted has been the sole criteria. The point now that's happening is that all of, you know, all matter that has been really previously excluded from that notion of identity is itself effectively having a say. It's itself turning on. It's itself turning on. Self-organizing…

• 00:44:06

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