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Tag: <span>loneliness</span>

Are you caught in a cyber-faustian moment of infinite loneliness?

Faust is one of my favourite texts. I like both Marlowe and Goethe’s telling of the old German story about the greedy Doctor Faust who bored with the tedium of ordinary life makes a pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge, pleasure, and exquisite experience. So I was instantly engaged when I heard William Gibson, author of the seminal Neuromancer describe his chief protagonists ‘cyber-faustian’ moment in relation to his relationship with technology during a podcast.