xix. In this respect, Davies' environments help demonstrate Irigaray's adherence to the technophobia constitutive of Western philosophy. For a critique of Irigaray along these lines, see Weiss, Chapter 6.
The important question to pose here is whether this technophobia is necessary and, given the resonances of our analysis in Chapter 1 with Irigaray's privileging of tactility as primordial, whether there is reason to believe that it is not. The task then would be to specify what a technics of tactile indifferentiation, as this is thought out of the maternal, might look like.
xx. See also Caillois' footnote where he likens this instinct to the Freudian death drive (“Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia," 32, note 44).
xxi. For a critique of this technophobia in Heidegger, see Mark Hansen, Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing, Chapter 4, and Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, volume 1: The Fault of Epimetheus, Part II.
xxii. Caillois is here citing Minkowski, "Le temps vécu."
CHAPTER 3
i. On this point, see especially chapter 6, "Nations, Identities, and Global Technologies," in Poster's book.
ii. Lisa Nakamura examines the "whiting out" of race in her exposé of the conventions of chat-room culture (“Race in/for Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet". This criticism is the inspiration for the essay collection, Race in Cyberspace, eds. B Kolko, L. Nakamura, and G. Rodman (New York: Routledge, 2000). See especially the essays by Nakamura, Jennifer Gonzalez, and Beth Kolko.
iii. Apter predicts that “postcolonial theory and aesthetic practice will cyberize' themselves quite soon (if they haven't already), pushing the envelope of the politics of global subjectivity as they place the diaspora online" (223).
iv. See Lisa Nakamura's analysis of Internet advertising ("Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality" in Race in Cyberspace, 21–22).
v. Effectively, this means the conventions which govern believability of character in that medium or in a particular online community:
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