The feature which disturbs the racist in his Other (the way they laugh, the smell of their food …) is … precisely the little piece of the real which bears witness to their presence beyond the symbolic order. We are thus far from bemoaning the loss of the contact with a ‘real’ flesh-and-blood other in cyberspace, in which all we encounter are digital phantoms: Our point is rather that cyberspace is not spectral enough
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