"In Cyberspace all positive properties are externalized in the sense that everything you are in a positive sense, all your features can be manipulated. When one plays in virtual space I can for example be a homosexual man who pretends to be a heterosexual woman, or whatever: either I can build a new identity for myself or in a more paranoiac way, I am somehow already controlled, manipulated by the digital space." - from the 'About Me' section of the MySpace of Slavoj Zizek
It is in the spirit of this (supposed) Zizek quote that I consider the MySpace headline as the post-9/11 epitaph: It is both an introduction to a 'hyper-You' and an epitaph for your analog-Self.
To further explain what I am saying (and to provide some much needed entertainment in this so-far dry post), here is yet more Zizek. Pay attention to what he says here about the Matrix the computer component in The Matrix) as a generator of fictions:
Thus the myspace headline becomes a declaration of your hyper-you: the digital layer in the palimpsest of the system of fictions that constitute the reality of your being.
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