Re: the computers and isolation blues

[Keith Rhodes <rhodes@xxxxxxx>]

...but seriously

I'm slated to be working out some of these issues at C&W, though I haven't
gotten back into the research yet (weeks to go!). A few years ago, for a
4Cs take on this, the best angle seemed to be one I don't use much -
neo-Marxist interpretations of alienation. To put dimly recalled material
into too simple form, the extent to which the Internet is a logical working
out of late capitalism, the commodification of everything, makes it
systematically likely to sponsor fetishistic identification, a sustainable
form of deluded alienation. I'm going to be mediating and troubling that
earlier viewpoint, since it strikes me that as online activity becomes
"normal," it becomes possible to have a wider range of relationships with
it. Still, it's been interesting to play with reading this discussion from
that viewpoint.





Keith Rhodes
rhodes@mwsc.edu | rhodes@ccp.com
http://www.mwsc.edu/~rhodes
---------------------------------------------------------




* CWOnline -- Computers & Writing Online 2001 discussion list
* To unsubscribe or to get more confererence information, visit:
* http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/cwonline2001/