Enero 13, 2006
The Alienating, Shadowy Limbo of the Web
I love this image that I found on the "site not here yet" page of some webhosting ISP when I was looking for someone's new website:
The picture envisions a limitless bland cyberspace filled with frustration, isolated inhabitants and floating symbols. So great.
Comments
that's so true. what an awesome image. for all teh hype of "cyberspace" as something that creates community, i feel like there is very little analysis of how the fundamentally individualist nature of the web interface supplants and enhances alienation. there was a little bit of it in Days of War, Nights of Love "is it freedom to sit? staring at a compter screen for hours on end..." but then again, i haven't read much net/media theory so i don't really know whats out there.
Posted by: lotu5 at Enero 13, 2006 12:16 PM