Virtual Intimacy

“In a pure relationship, the individual does not simply ‘recognise the other’ and in the responses of that other find his self-identity affirmed. Rather, as follows from the preceeding points, self-identity is negotiated through linked processes of self-exploration and the development of intimacy with the other. “
—Anthony Giddens

Step13 — M March 22
Read — Boellstorff, Chapter 6, Intimacy, 151-178 (Reader Response19)
Read — Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 192-267 (Reader Response20)

Step14 — W March 25
Read — Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy (Reader Response21)

F March 27 
Field trip1 Islam  (Meet in world, at Wisdom’s sandbox)