Allucquere Rosanne Stone "Split Subjects, not Atoms" In The Cyborg Handbook; edited by Chris Hables Gray, Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera, and Steven Mentor; New York: Routledge, 1995 (pp. 393-406) Allucquere Rosanne Stone uses the concept 'cyborg envy' to sort through her personal incorporations and interactions with technology. In addition to her childhood experience of radio crystals and her retrospective admiration of Stephen Hawking, Stone explores the relationship between phone sex workers, data compression, virtuality, and information technology. More specifically, she focuses on the power differential in virtual systems. In Stone's estimation, traditional systems of power depend upon warranting, location technologies, and bodily inscription. The body acts as a 'legible space' and a 'textually mediated physicality.' As a result, fragmented identities, online avatars, and dissolving bodies pose a crisis for governmentality. In the virtual age, therefore, control systems respond with increased technology: "Governments' response to the fragmentation of their subjects is to develop a hypertrophy of location technologies. These work by fixing the people in place in a fiduciary sense, creating a paper trail that attaches to a particularized physical body." Unfortunately, Stone resolves these complex communications problems into a single opposition: either information technologies have not changed anything, or they have changed everything. This absolute dichotomy generalizes digital media into a singular medium, and fails to distinguish local specificity. Her concluding remarks reduce the electronic industry into a single monolith, and generally attacks 'post-adolescent male programmers' for their immaturity and lack of ethics. L.E. Fazen