a complicated brain event (shehasathree) wrote in cmanthropology,
2006-02-04 20:00:00

real responsibilites located in the physical life of the body vs online life

i'm not sure i entirely agree; what do you think?

"[C]yberspace resurrects rather than transcends the dualist legacies of the past...[W]e would do well to remember that we are, for the forseeable future, 'here to stay' in these bodies, on this planet, and that our responsibilities are located precisely here, not in some parallel digital universe (Dery 1996; Slouka 1995; Williams 1998). Real bodies, real lives, real responsibilities" (Williams and Bendelow 1998: 88).

cross-posted: blog_sociology
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choker

February 4 2006, 16:28:40 UTC 7 years ago

If I grasp what they're claiming, then yeah, I disagree. Maybe that was taken out of context. There can easily be an argument made which proposes that cyberspace allows us to forget about our physical experiences of reality... it allows our minds to kind of travel outside the physical limitations of the body. Our responsibilities are increasingly located in cyberspace (for example, we use it to communicate to friends, family, and loved ones online, a lot of people work online, etc). In fact, it's possible to be responsible for physical things to a very minimal degree and be able to experience life mostly online (not that it's a virtue, but it's possible).