Thinking of Oneself as a Computer

Having developed symptoms of repetitive-stress injury after years of enthusiastic computer programming, animation and art making, the author uses her experience of this injury to explore what she terms the ‘disembodied landscape’ surrounding the human and the computer. She discusses the idea that the computer is becoming the new metaphor of the self and links this concept to mind/body, self/other, reason/emotion and male/female dualisms.