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Section 10 - Back to Monsters
(1) Graham Greene is reported to have said that every author needs a splinter of ice in their hearts – this is similar to the shards of glass from the devils mirror in the Snow Queen.
(2) Max in videodrome has a video tape inserted into his belly.
(3) A Rape in Cyberspace - How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society, By Julian Dibbell © 1993, first published in The Village Voice, December 23, 1993. About Multi Oject Orientation (MOOs) http://www.levity.com/julian/bungle_vv.html
| And it's precisely this logic that provides the real magic in a place like LambdaMOO -- not the fictive trappings of voodoo and shapeshifting and wizardry, but the conflation of speech and act that's inevitable in any computer-mediated world, be it Lambda or the increasingly wired world at large. This is dangerous magic, to be sure, a potential threat -- if misconstrued or misapplied -- to our always precarious freedoms of expression, and as someone who lives by his words I do not take the threat lightly. And yet, on the other hand, I can no longer convince myself that our wishful insulation of language from the realm of action has ever been anything but a valuable kludge, a philosophically damaged stopgap against oppression that would just have to do till something truer and more elegant came along. |
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(4) Manchester Evening News – Thursday, September 26, 2002.
(5)Transcribed from To Kill and Kill Again on Channel 4 – early 2002. The quote is made by Paul Britton a Consultant Forensic and Clinical Psychologist.
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