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S. Paige Baty : e-mail trouble: love and addiction @ the matrix (Constructs Series)
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Author: S. Paige Baty
Title: e-mail trouble: love and addiction @ the matrix (Constructs Series)
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Published in: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 167
Date: 1999-01-01
ISBN: 0292708645
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Weight: 0.59 pounds
Size: 0.36 x 5.98 x 9.02 inches
Edition: First Edition
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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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