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Sandy Stone > Will The Real Body Please Stand Up?

Bibliographical notes : Rosanne Allacuquere Stone, "Will the Real Body Please Stand Up: Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures" in Michael Benedikt (Ed.) Cyberspace: First Steps (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991).

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Before diving in the text, I recommend reading the Wikipedia page entry for the author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Stone_(artist)), it sheds a lot of light on the text, and makes it easier to understand where she is coming from.

"Allucquére Rosanne Stone (Sandy Stone) was born Zelig Ben-Natan in New York City. Her date of birth is uncertain but was probably in the late 1940s. She has stated that while a teen she was intensely averse to formal education, preferring to travel in the New England area auditing classes with university professors whose work she admired."...