Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
E-mail Trouble: Love and Addiction @ the Matrix

E-mail Trouble: Love and Addiction @ the Matrix

Baty, S. Paige

Paperback

Series: Constructs

Biographies GeneralGeneral SociologyMental Health

ISBN10: 0292708645
ISBN13: 9780292708648
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Feb 1 1999
Pages: 167
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.45
Language: English

This is about a society of isolates who all communicate with one another from terminal sites. This is about being disembodied, distanced, distinct, and that sort of boundary-thing. It is not about being present. It is not about being there. It is not about a shared history, or a shared meal, or a shared story, or any kind of mutuality. It is about contact between virtual strangers. . . . It happens when you feel that you are so alone that you need anybody to talk to--anybody at all--because you believe that your connections have failed you. This kind of connection leaves you cold and dead inside, because it lacks history and a language of belonging.

Also in

General Sociology

View All