t I become myself through them, as they become themselves in and through me.

The self—if indeed this term any longer makes sense—is a node in a complex network of relations. In emerging network culture, subjectivity is nodular. Nodes, we have discovered, are knots formed when different strands, fibers, or threads are woven together. As the shifting site of multiple interfaces, nodular subjectivity not only screens the sea of information in which it is immersed, but is itself the screen displaying what one is and is not. . . . In the midst of these webs, networks, and screens, I can be no more certain where I am than I can know when or where the I begins and ends. I am plugged into other objects and subjects in such a way that I become myself in and through them, even as they become themselves in and through me.3