Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismNet/WorkNew technologies change the way we work. As scholars of Romanticism we spend a lot more time jacked in than we used to: browsing archives, downloading essays. But we might be missing opportunities that arrive with the Internet. We're net/workers now. We are dispersed, hyperlinked nodes of transmission in a cybersea of data. [1] We are access codes as much as personalities, email addresses more than colleagues in any traditional sense. The on-line archive is a vast collaboratory of information. As we adapt to this new space, our Net/work will link us into systems of knowledge transfer, integrated organisms of data exchange. [2] We are becoming many. Notes1. See Seven Shaviro, connected: what it means to live in a network society (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003). 2. Gibson has much to say of such prospects, the live(s) of information to come, most pertinently in Idoru (New York: Putnam, 1996). Navigation |