ABSTRACT
It should be remarked at the outset that this chapter exists in tandem with – but also in tension with – the next chapter, on the body in cyberculture. There are many related issues to consider, so there will be many potential overlaps (which I shall try to signal along the way). Chapter 7 will consider questions of disembodiment and re-embodiment in cyberspace, and will explore the figures of the cyborg and the posthuman – although we shall need to at least be aware of these things here. What I recommend, then, is a kind of primitive hypertext-like reading between these two chapters.
