unable to 'configure the self' is sounding somewhat similar to varieties of schizoanalysis surrounding Felix Guattari's work, which somewhat influenced Turkle's book mentioned earlier in this thread. There are certainly other ways of going about analyzing the self which are different, I tend toward theorizing the unconfigurable self, in part because i can see denying the self as anything except an abstraction due to other theoretical commitments. So yes, there is a somewhat strong tradition there that is slowly making inroads along these lines, but I don't know how many people want to consider this, so I can provide citations and other resources if anyone sends me a private message on it. Ellis Godard wrote:
Cristian Berrio asked:
Are you thoeorizing that the behaviour of a person, reflected in the cyberspace, can configure a "self" with owned characteristics?
Is anyone theorizing that the behavior of a person offline is unable to "configure a self"? (Perhaps not absolutely, but cyberspacial configuration is of course not absolute either.)
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