Saturday, September 01, 2007

ZOMG

I'm really fascinated by representations of cyberspace, of the Internet. I think one of the central ways to talk about our understanding of cyberspace and digital technology is through the cultural productions produced about them, for them, by them, around them. I taught a class last year called Imagining Cyberspace, which looked at literary and visual representations of cyberspace. It was interesting and even though students are often praised for being so technologically 'savvy', they still found new eyes and resistances to the very naturalised understanding of the Net and its concomitant technology. This is a long winded introduction to one of the scariest (and cheesiest) images I've found in a long, long, long time:


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