Punch Kids

Cyberspace is a version, paradoxical, or even a pa- rody, of heaven. It’s a place where your body is not present, but your consciousness is. It is a place of immortality, of not being mortal, of having over- come death. There is a view that cyberspace is a salvational reality, that it saves us from our crude shit- filled rotting bodies, and that we will transcend into an angelic sphere of pure data where we will download consciousness and never die. If you have read William Gibson, the image is very clear: You have the hacker, who is jacked in, literally jacked into the computer. The body is rotting, but the cy- berpersona is clearly immortal.”

- Peter Lamborn Wilson , from the essay “Islam and the Internet”.

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