"Staying with this notion of our 'struggle for recognition' and how it relates to these dueling identities, All This Life explores the idea that perhaps Hegel's Otherness might simply be a different version of the self: a digital narcissism. Who's to say that our in-real-life lives are more important than our avatars and usernames? If the computer makes certain people feel sated in ways that the real world can't, is that a peril or an evolution?"
by
Jill Talbot