[Air-l] New Theoretical Approaches to the Self in Cyber-Culture

[jeremy hunsinger]

unable to 'configure the self' is sounding somewhat similar to varieties 
of schizoanalysis surrounding Felix Guattari's work, which somewhat 
influenced Turkle's book mentioned earlier in this thread. There are 
certainly other ways of going about analyzing the self which are 
different, I tend toward theorizing the unconfigurable self, in part 
because i can see denying the self as anything except an abstraction due 
to other theoretical commitments.  So yes, there is a somewhat strong 
tradition there that is slowly making inroads along these lines, but I 
don't know how many people want to consider this, so I can provide 
citations and other resources if anyone sends me a private message on it.


Ellis Godard wrote:

>Cristian Berrio asked:
>
>>Are you thoeorizing that the behaviour of a person, reflected in the
>>cyberspace, can configure a "self" with owned characteristics?
>>
>
>Is anyone theorizing that the behavior of a person offline is unable to
>"configure a self"? (Perhaps not absolutely, but cyberspacial configuration
>is of course not absolute either.)
>
>
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