Comments on: final, finally http://cms.hyperrhiz.net/symposium/?p=85 an electronic literature symposium Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:26:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 By: davin http://cms.hyperrhiz.net/symposium/?p=85#comment-48 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:26:41 +0000 http://www.hyperrhiz.net/symposium/2007/11/27/final-finally/#comment-48 Zephyr, this is a great final post. It was really hard to visit your friend’s myspace page… but at the same time… a really powerful vehicle for thinking about mortality, authority, and digital media. Thank you, especially, for giving me a glimpse of the mourning process.

As I have been working the last few years, I keep coming back to questions of authenticity, presence, and the post-human. I think that death is one place where the overwhelming weight of humanity (both in the end of the individual and the reverberation this loss sends through the communities to which that person belongs) can show itself to us in a powerful way. Even though this loss is not personal to me, I cannot help but feel its gravity in the many messages left on his myspace page.

Usually such intimate things don’t make it into academic discussions. But it really adds some perspective to my work…

Thank you.

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