Digital Phantom A Spectral Attitude to Living
Digital Phantom A Spectral Attitude to Living

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I will argue that the social network industry called Facebook engenders a phantomisation effect. My interest here lies in examining how the public soul is a re-correlation of soul and image, how a digital version of the Dorian Gray Syndrome operates, and how shades of the living are avant-garding the ghosts of the dead in cyberspace. Finally, I will show how Facebook becomes a cemetery by not allowing us to forget.

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