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"This is about a society of isolates who all communicate with one another from terminal sites. This is about being disembodied, distanced, distinct, and that sort of boundary-thing. It is not about being present. It is not about being there. It is not about a shared history, or a shared meal, or a shared story, or any kind of mutuality. It is about contact between virtual strangers. . . . It happens when you feel that you are so alone that you need anybody to talk to--anybody at all--because you believe that your connections have failed you. This kind of connection leaves you cold and dead inside, because it lacks history and a language of belonging." In this daring, postmodern autobiography, S. Paige Baty recounts her search for love and community on the Internet. Taking Jack Kerouac's On the Road as a point of departure, Baty describes both an actual road trip to meet the object of an e-mail romance and the cyber-search for connection that draws so many people into the matrix of the Internet. Writing in a bold, experimental style that freely mixes e-mails, poems, fragments of quotations, and puns into expository text, she convincingly links e-mail trouble with "female trouble" in the displacement of embodied love and accountable human relationships to opaque screens and alienated identities. Her book stands as a vivid feminist critique of our culture's love affair with technology and its dehumanizing effect on personal relationships.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Prose: non-fiction Literary essays

• Full title: e-mail trouble
• Subtitle: love and addiction @ the matrix
• Author: S.Paige Baty
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 167
• EAN: 9780292708648
• ISBN: 0292708645
• ID: 04872514
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Weight: 482 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. November 1998

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