"The eroticism of the telematic embrace is seductive and
appealing, perhaps more so for its elusiveness . . . . While
enabling new conditions for, and qualities of mutual exchange,
such hyaline interfaces [of the telecommunications apparatus]
may equally transform communication into monologue,
unification into narcissism, passionate attraction into
solitary confinement. Might not the persistent self-reflection
one experiences on a computer screen interrupt the mantric
union of technological apparatus and human consciousness,
network and node? Do not many delays, bugs, viruses, and
crashes . . . remind the telematic participant that s/he is
inevitably a perpetual observer, a voyeur whose electronic
relationships are subject to autoerotic soliloquy?"
-Edward Shanken
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