Cybercultures

Notes from: An Introduction To Cybercultures by David Bell

Our body is thought of as 'meat', technology makes us unconscious of our bodies through getting 'lost' into the technology at hand. Cyberspace can make our bodies disappear because we forget that if we watch tv, we're less aware that it's actually only technology, but we feel more adapted to it, like we're there and a part of it all.

The only things that bring us back down to reality are the likes of tiredness, hunger, stiffness/pain etc. We seem to become aware that we're back in the room consciously and do something else.

This connects to my music theme, we get 'lost' in our own minds when earphones/headphones are attatched to our heads as music plays through our eardrums..it not only passes through our eardrums, but it passes through our minds.