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03556_Field_PRVI T9.txt
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1996-04-10
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The violence that all electric media inflict on their
users is that they are instantly invaded and
deprived of their physical bodies and are merged
in a network of extensions of their own nervous
systems. As if this were not sufficient violence or
invasion of individual rights, the elimination of the
physical bodies of the electric media users also
deprives them of the means of relating the
programme experience of their private individual
selves, even as instant involvement supresses
private identity.
The loss of individual and personal meaning via the
electronic media ensures a corresponding and