Living on Cybermind

The Author: Jonathan Paul Marshall has an M.A. (Hons) and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Sydney. He has been an Australian Research Council Research Fellow at the Transforming Cultures Research Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney, working on a project on online gender. Some publications include: «Cybermind: Paradoxes of Gender and Relationship in an Online Group», in Samantha Holland (ed.), Remote Relationships in a Small World (Peter Lang, forthcoming); «Categories, Gender and Online Community» in E-Learning, 3(2); «Negri, Hardt, Distributed Governance and Open Source Software» in Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 3(1); and «The Sexual Life of Cyber-Savants» in The Australian Journal of Anthropology 14(2). Marshall has also written on the historical relationship between the occult and science and technology. His next project involves the exploration of the relationship between modes of ordering and modes of disruption, focusing on the use of information technology.