Comments on: Why do we take on Avatars? http://cyberdiva.org/blog/2008/12/26/why-do-we-take-on-avatars/ cyberdivadotorg Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:20:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jason http://cyberdiva.org/blog/2008/12/26/why-do-we-take-on-avatars/comment-page-1/#comment-4577 jason Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:24:15 +0000 http://cyberdiva.org/blog/?p=560#comment-4577 I think it tells us that our modern invention of schizophrenia can't take into account non-modernist notions of just about anything. :) On the other hand, though I find the modern notion of avatar a really limited embodiment of the non-digital concept, I really wonder when we didn't have avatars representing us. The digital representations just allowed for us to see them at a distance and articulate them as puppet-bots. I think it tells us that our modern invention of schizophrenia can’t take into account non-modernist notions of just about anything. :)

On the other hand, though I find the modern notion of avatar a really limited embodiment of the non-digital concept, I really wonder when we didn’t have avatars representing us. The digital representations just allowed for us to see them at a distance and articulate them as puppet-bots.

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