e-mail trouble : : love and addiction @ the matrix / / S. Paige Baty.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Constructs Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (167 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- > e-mail trouble -- POST SCRIPT |
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| Summary: | 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 "ations, 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. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780292730441 9783110745351 |
| DOI: | 10.7560/708631 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | S. Paige Baty. |