What does it mean to be embodied online? What are the conditions of cybersubjectivity? In
Material Virtualities Jenny Sundén explores the rarely acknowledged borderland between typists
and textual bodies speaking and writing and physicality and imagination in online encounters.
Through careful ethnographic investigations of a text-based virtual world called WaterMOO
Sundén shows how texts bodies and machines are linked together in ways that demand a new
understanding of the writing subject. Drawing on contemporary feminist and queer theory she
questions the opposition between disembodied high-tech masculinity and embodied earth-bound
femininity insisting on the need for a radical materialization of cybercultural studies that
discloses the «virtual» as itself embodied.
