Everywhere we are told about ways to improve the self. What is at the center of this is an attempt to perfect the self. Be it through physical or mental exercise it seems that our society is continually bent on up-grading ourselves. This drive has taken on a fetish like character ever since the Enlightenment. We now have the ability to transform, create, re-create and mass produce the self.
Books can convey how to better our self-image.
The World Wide Web allows any one with a computer to construct a facsimile of themselves and post it. On-line role playing games allow those who lack outlets elsewhere to create fictional characters and interact with others. The self has become something to maximize and perfect in an almost mechanical manner. My project here is to explore how the development of technologies has effected the self. I begin with a discussion of the self and its related technologies.