https://cyborganthropology.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Online_Bodies_as_GhostsOnline Bodies as Ghosts - Revision history2026-05-07T21:18:07ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.3https://cyborganthropology.com/index.php?title=Online_Bodies_as_Ghosts&diff=938&oldid=prevCaseorganic: Created page with '“Disembodied” is a term frequently used in academic analysis of online life. For example Dery writes of ‘disembodied... combatants’ (1993: 559), Marcus of a ‘disembodie…'2010-06-29T16:51:40Z<p>Created page with '“Disembodied” is a term frequently used in academic analysis of online life. For example Dery writes of ‘disembodied... combatants’ (1993: 559), Marcus of a ‘disembodie…'</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>“Disembodied” is a term frequently used in academic analysis of online life. For example Dery writes of ‘disembodied... combatants’ (1993: 559), Marcus of a ‘disembodied medium’ (1996a: 23), McLagan of ‘disembodied communication’ (1996: 161), Danet et al of ‘disembodied "virtual play"’ (1998: 41), while Wertheim ambiguously oscillates between arguing that people perceive Cyberspace as immaterial or that it is an ‘immaterial space of mind’ (1999: 41, 228-9, 231-2).<br />
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Email is also sometimes stated to be like “disembodied” or, “mind to mind communication”. This model, and attacks on this model, were moderately common on Cybermind. For example John writes:<br />
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It took a while, but I learned to type and Zen-program in my sleep and suddenly I wasn’t in my chair in a computer lab, I had left it and was in an astral plane. Programs were spells, and I was a magi of unlimited mana.<br />
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In reply to KK, who wrote ‘a soul is nothing but a neuro chemical process’, Paula wrote:<br />
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"Oh PLEEEEEEASEE. Always and forever the soul is an electric force that shivers and shimmers and reflects the essence of a human being. Don’t you know that’s why we take so natually to cyberspace? It’s a lovely marriage of electrons, human and machine".<br />
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'''Source:''' The Online Body Breaks Out? Asence, Ghosts, Cyborgs, Gender, Polarity and Politics Jonathan Marshall http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue3/issue3_marshall.html</div>Caseorganic