Agreed. Internet in fact not only eliminates the body's movements - as
stated by Paul Virilio when he reflect on the fact that postmodernity
favours a fake sense of speed, inhibiting completely the residuals
modernist sense of physical velocity attained through machineries and
machines - but eliminates also the sexual connotations of the pseudo-
physical identities involved in static communication. Internet's
cumulative, rather than selective understanding of people's sexual idenity
helps the creation of a transsexual type of communications (audiovisual
non-differenciation, so that users are never sure as to whom exactly is
their interlocutor. This is the main problem with the internet, the fact
that all turns into self-reflexive theory. So, to overcome all this, Marcus
and Liz should actually meet and see what happens when they are finally and
irrevocably faced with a real human being which inhabit the non-identity
which challenges their identity in a game of reciprocal fallacy.
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