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A common trope during the rise of anatomical dissection during the 16th century was the Latin saying »Know Thyself« (literally, inside and out). The fascination with the public anatomy theaters was this doubled auto-voyeurism: during a public dissection, you were seeing what your
insides looked like, but at the same time it obviously wasn't you down there, splayed open, on the dissection table. Webcams are an anatomy of net.subjectivity; the creative exhibitionism acts by variously reflecting, diffracting, distorting, maybe saying much more about the context of networked surveillance of voyeurs, than about Jenni, Amanda, Ana, or the numerous other webcam personalities.
"> poetics of digital text: p0es1s- symposium: 27th to 30th, Erfurt
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