"Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications."

— Barlow, John Perry (b. 1947)


Date
February 8, 1996
Metaphor
"Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications."
Metaphor in Context
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
Provenance
Reading
Citation
John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (February 8, 1996) <Link to www.eff.org>
Date of Entry
12/12/2016

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.