“…to make us remember that we are warm-blooded mammals, and that the cold information we generate is a product of our desires, and manifests some deep elements of our being.”
First of all, I really like the way Spooky describes humans, computer-users per se, as warm-blooded and alive, meanwhile the computers we interact with on a daily basis are cold. The fact that while we are alive we enjoy tampering with inherently “dead” things, such as the internet which is a tangible, un-breathing object. The most intriguing factor of this metaphor is the idea that we as users breathe life into the computer. If the computer does indeed reflect its corporeal user, it reflects the life that it doesn’t have. If someone doesn’t flip the switch and turn the computer on, it remains dead and unchanging, but we have the power to give life in this aspect. We give life to this medium, while it returns our dark desires of “cold information”.
Does this mean that the Internet is undead? What does that make us? (Fun metaphors here.)