Frances Dyson > Quotes

“the "it's as if you are there" of screen-based media is truncated to a "you are there": one is in cyberspace, not watching it; one is a navigator, not a viewer. By "being in," rather than "looking at," virtual environments, the viewer is said to occupy the space and time, the here and now, the virtual present of a separate but ontologically real space.”
― Frances Dyson, Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture

“technics ... is the means through which man becomes a work of his own.... What is so frightening about technics is nothing more than the angst man feels before, and in, the exposure of his existence to the abyss of his lack of essence."6”
― Frances Dyson, Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture

“we are at the dawn of the new cosmology, about to enter what might be called
`techno-cosmology"' and ending this declaration with the rather despondent claim that "in the end, nothing but techniques come ... to our lack of being. Instead of reinforcing the confinements and enclosure of identity, it pushes identities to open up and experience alterity." Here technology is an avenue to alterity itself, the experience of which is necessarily associated with the bypassing of representation to experience the real in itself.”
― Frances Dyson, Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture