notes

1. virtuality is perhaps not a universal form of life, but a singularity
(translation available at source - Cyberspère 9: March 1996)

2. cf. Jean Baudrillard. America. (London: Verso, 1988)

3. I don’t know much about [new technologies]. I haven’t gone beyond the fax and the automatic answering machine. […] Cyberspace is not of great use to me personally. (ibid.)

4. there will be no politics of virtuality, because politics has become virtual; there will be no code of ethics of virtuality, because the code of ethics has become virtual, that is, there are no more references to a value system. I am not making a nostalgic note there: Virtuality retranscribes everything in its space; in a way, human ends vanish into thin air in virtuality. It is not a doom-laden danger in the sense of an explosion, but rather a passage through an indefinable space. A kind of radical uncertainty. One communicates, but as far as what is said, one does not know what becomes of it. This will become so obvious that there will no longer even be any problems concerning liberty or identity. (ibid.)

5. GeoCities is an on-line company providing free Personal Home Pages in twenty-nine themed communities to anyone with access to the Web. "Vienna" is one of these themed communities: "Classical music, opera, and ballet define this decidedly upscale community with Old World charm."

6. There is a link to her website on the Malta Network Resources describes itself as "the authoritative selected index of Maltese network resources, including web servers reachable through the Internet, known to the compiler." The MNR claims that "personal or incomplete pages will not be included in this list." Christine’s First Page is undoubtedly a "personal" page, yet it has been included in the MNR list of "Selected Malta-related Sites". The MNR is maintained by Clyde Meli, Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Computer Information Systems at the University of Malta.