It's 10:22pm, and Asher is finally asleep. This is the worst case of coxsackie he's ever had.

Somehow, I managed to finish the reading notes for class (Each week, a different student leads discussion on a reading). This week was Mark Poster's Postmodern Virtualities (so very 1990s). Here's my "Elevator Pitch/Armchair Critique" section:


Mark Poster maps popular notions of postmodernity (see Dominant Themes section) to emerging technologies like the internet and virtual reality. By the essay’s publish date, this was a well-worn path (Gibson, Stephenson, two full years of Wired), and I’m not sure why he asserts otherwise. I was also surprised that he missed the lay-up of hypertext being the physical manifestation of the fragmented narrative – another favorite postmodern finding of the time.