ratava, avatar and all that databody jazz

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		wMonday, July 31, 2006
		cruikshank 22: balsamo says online embodiment offers an "illusion of control" cf anorexia and control ...Melbourne uni library has exactly two books on the topic of anorexia, one of which is a ten-year-old thesis. off to Amazon.com again... posted by JS at 14:14

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		ann balsamo: technologies of the gendered body: reading cyborg women posted by JS at 14:03

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		more from Cruikshank: one of the wills to online existence is (supposed to be) the desire to escape the body; she describes it as essentially a religious will to transcendence. posted by JS at 13:58

		wSunday, July 30, 2006
		cruikshank p 16: the body is lost online, "a critical amputation" posted by JS at 14:49

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		look up: Jeremy Fisher, 1997, "will to virtuality" (from Cruikshank p 10-11) posted by JS at 14:42

		wSaturday, July 29, 2006
		Certeau, the Practice of Everyday Life posted by JS at 14:41

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		hikkomori: japanese boys who lock themselves away. she carries out a version of this, ultimately disappearing into the computer, in a sense (though in another sense she just dies) posted by JS at 14:35

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		a line from Cruikshank: the desire for virtual embodiment comes from a need to either restore a body that is felt to be absent, or to escape from the "meat". although incompatible, I can imagine one person feeling both these things. posted by JS at 10:55

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		Avatar dreams: An ethnography of desire for the virtual body by Cruikshank, Lauren Ruth, MA QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON (CANADA), 2001, 102 pages MQ59370 - need to go through the library website to get to this. posted by JS at 10:37

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		the mla style guide online posted by JS at 10:36