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My Tiny Life Julian Dibbell

My Tiny Life By Julian Dibbell

My Tiny Life by Julian Dibbell


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Summary

The true story of a journey into an on-line community, LambdaMOO, a virtual Eden, where race, gender and identity were infinitely malleable and whose visitors thought they had escaped from all usual cultural limits. Until a brutal rape and ideological warfare between high and low castes brought the virtual and real worlds into seismic collision.

My Tiny Life Summary

My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell

The true story of a journey into an on-line community, LambdaMOO, a virtual Eden, where race, gender and identity were infinitely malleable and whose visitors thought they had escaped from all usual cultural limits. Until a brutal rape and ideological warfare between high and low castes brought the virtual and real worlds into seismic collision.

LambdaMOO is a new kind of society, where thousands of people voluntarily come together from all over the world. What these people say or do may not always be to your liking; as when visiting any international city, it is wise to be careful who you associate with and what you say... - LambdaMOO log-on screen

The rape is just the start. What is frightening is that it happened in the living room, amid the well-stocked bookcases and sofas and fireplace, of a house in a place that was once perfect. Perfect, in that it was flawless, a clear canvas for every individual to explore their creative selves. This place, LambdaMOO, is a virtual Garden of Good - and, perhaps inevitably once enough people had entered it, Evil. And that is how the masked character, Mr Bungle, comes to assault and abuse two females by entering sadistic fantasies into a voodoo doll program; that is how the Schmoo wars begin, how wizards are isolated from their flock, how laws are fought over, how love and sex and death emerge into the virtual world - and how what began as ideal and virtual becomes actual and all to real. The reader becomes Gulliver, travelling into the Tiny World of virtual reality, wandering the pathways in a moral journey that belongs to Lord of the Flies with a cast of charcters from the Lawnmower Man.

About Julian Dibbell

Julian Dibbell is an editor at The Village Voice. He has written about cyberculture for many magazines as well, including Time.

Additional information

GOR003159481
9781841150574
1841150576
My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
19990902
352
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