Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

My Cell Phone.

My Computer.

The Playstation.

The Microwave.

The MP3 Player.

The Television.

At first, these things were part of him and only came into my life when he came to briefly invade. Then his brief invasions became a full scale occupation. The technology that I had once avoided was now all around me. Once I would have welcomed a near Luddite existence. Now, I embraced the buffer that the mp3 player gave me in public spaces. I spent hours engrossed in the world that was Diablo 2. I told myself that the time that I spent playing games on the Playstation improved my hand-eye coordination. The microwave made it easier to make larger quantities of food and reheat it later. The cell phone just made it easier to stay in touch. After all, I was at school or on the bus so much it was hard to catch me at home. The television was nice because because I couldn't read all the time. Then one day I woke up and realized that I had fallen in love with all the technology that I had once considered to be unnecessary.