One quote doesn't an "almost every" make.

Not that I thought that someone would doubt that claim (or that they might really care) but if I write that I'm continually finding delicious writing throughout the book it's only fair that I give at least one more example. Scott examines (p. 21) the ways in which digitality has caused us to "redefine" the limits of our bodies:

If our bodies have traditionally provided the basic outline of our presence in the world, then we can’t enter a networked environment, in which we present ourselves in multiple places at once, without rethinking the scope and limits of embodiment. While we sit next to one person, smiling through a screen at someone else, our thoughts, our visions, our offhand and heartfelt declarations materialise in fragments in one another’s pockets. It’s astonishing to think how in the last twenty years the limits and coherence of our bodies have been so radically redefined. We have an everywhereness to us now that inevitably alters our relationship to those stalwart human aspects of self-containment, remoteness and isolation.
Again, unlike most of the critiques or analyses of digitality that fill our shelves or our hard drives, Scott isn't telling us that we've lost, or gained, something through our encounter with digitality. He's describing how the almost minimal change of having digital devices in our pockets compels us to view our lives differently.



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