{"product_id":"e-mail-trouble-love-and-addiction-the-matrix-9780292708648","title":"E-mail Trouble: Love and Addiction @ the Matrix","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): S. Paige Baty\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"This is about a society of isolates who all communicate with one another from terminal sites. This is about being disembodied, distanced, distinct, and that sort of boundary-thing. It is not about being present. It is not about being there. It is not about a shared history, or a shared meal, or a shared story, or any kind of mutuality. It is about contact between virtual strangers. . . . It happens when you feel that you are so alone that you need anybody to talk to--anybody at all--because you believe that your connections have failed you. This kind of connection leaves you cold and dead inside, because it lacks history and a language of belonging.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this daring, postmodern autobiography, S. Paige Baty recounts her search for love and community on the Internet. Taking Jack Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e as a point of departure, Baty describes both an actual road trip to meet the object of an e-mail romance and the cyber-search for connection that draws so many people into the matrix of the Internet. Writing in a bold, experimental style that freely mixes e-mails, poems, fragments of quotations, and puns into expository text, she convincingly links e-mail trouble with \"female trouble\" in the displacement of embodied love and accountable human relationships to opaque screens and alienated identities. Her book stands as a vivid feminist critique of our culture's love affair with technology and its dehumanizing effect on personal relationships. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614593597591,"sku":"9780292708648","price":2337.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780292708648.webp?v=1775094832","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/e-mail-trouble-love-and-addiction-the-matrix-9780292708648","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}