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grantedbyanyreliableaxiologyofinteractionbut,onthecontrary,is
furrowedwithuncertaintiesandperilsinscribedinthechaoticnature
ofcommunicationnetworks.Thisnetworkedenvironmentoftrust
givesrisetoanessentiallyfragmentedmodelofsubjectivitywhich,as
ScotBukatmanteachesus,maybedefinedintermsoftheHterminal
identity.”8Trustingrelationsareinscribedinthenetworkofterritorially
distantandphysicallyabsentOtherswhoremainshroudedintheaura
ofuncertaintysincefromtheonsettheirinteractionsaresimulatedand
mediatedbyhyperrealtechnologiesofinformationprocessing.Online
reciprocityconstitutesthefoundationforanovelformoftrustwhich
becomesvestedintheabstractqualitiesofasystembywhichthevery
interactionbecomesmediated.
8ScotBukatman,TerminalIdentity.TheVirtualSubjectinPostmodernScience
Fiction(DurhamDCandLondon:DukeUniversityPress,1993).
