CRIM3602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, Cybersex, Robert Doornbos
1 Dec 2018
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(9) reinventing our selves: the internet and the restructuring of relationships and identities. Cybersex refers to mediated whole body sexual encounters, or simulated sex acts, through computer technology, sensors, effectors and viberators. It creates a technologically enhanced corporeal experience in a virtual reality. Examples of cybersexual activities include the exchange of emails, online platform chats, computer games, 3d audio recording technology, media art installation. Telematic dreaming (1992), virtual manga dolls like the cyber figurine alice or human robotic relations (stenslie, 2014). Contemporary technoculture has embraced visions of technologically liberated sexual adventures with anybody, anywhere and at anytime. Cyberspace can be defined as an immaterial consensual hallucination of bodiless exultation, based on a discontent with corporeality (inkinen, 1999). Sexuality comprises our physical self and sociocultural context, in relationship with human sexual activity. It is a medium through which people seek to define their identities, personalities and consciousness of themselves. Antonio rosmini and aristophanes" (cited in lunceford, 2009) definition of sex, the.
