In Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication , John Durham Peters argues that soul merger between humans is impossible because communication could never transcend the existential barrier between self and other. I contest Peters’ argu- ment by constructing my own history starting from where Peters’ history leaves off. I show how disembodied communication is imagined in William Gibson’s classic science fiction novel, Neuromancer , how cyberfeminist artists import embodiment into virtual realities, and how Ray Kurzweil’s “the Singularity,” the notion that in our not-too-distant future humans will evolve into machines, makes posthuman communication a coming reality.
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