Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self

by Joe Amato

Joe Amato is Assistant Professor of English in the Lewis Department of Humanities at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and author of Symptoms of a Finer Age.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791434028
• ISBN13: 9780791434024
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

In cyberspace where the self transmogrifies, Amato ventures

Meet me in cyberspace where the self transmogrifies into ecstatic and traumatic forms of new and simuluated selfhood, and you will understand the "virtual reality" territory Joe Amato is venturing into and mapping with all the rage of a concerned citizen and the talented writing skills of an innovative poet. This timely SUNY Press book is exploring and opening new territory for US poetics of the counter-canonical sort, and as such is a valued and compelling foray into this new sublimity of cyberspace writing. The "book may end" here, but the "virtual self" and its masks, tasks, and possibilities are only beginning, dear mongrel reader, lost and wandering in this same vasty & unexplored hyper-capitalist transnational space yourself...