could you pls elaborate -- for what does MUD stand?
On Mon, 12 May 1997 GMCMILLAN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> Re: Public punishments:
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> Punishment on MUDs shows a return to the medieval. While penal
> systems in the Western nations that form the backbone of the Internet-
> -the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom and Australia--have
> ceased to concentrate upon the body of the condemned as the site for
> punishment, and have instead turned to 'humane' incarceration and
> social rehabilitation, the exercise of authority on MUDs has revived
> the old practices of public shaming and torture. The theatre of
> authority in virtual reality is one which demands and facilitates a
> strongly dramaturgical element. All actions on MUDs must be overt,
> every nuance of experience must be manifestly represented for it to
> become part of the play, and so punishment must be flamboyant. The
> virtual world of a MUD exists in its dramatic strength only in the
> minds of its players, but the play enacted in the virtual world
> emulates the physical rather than the mental. The public spectacle of
> punishment, which Foucault describes as disappearing from the Western
> political scene between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is
> alive and well on MUDs.[8]
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> -- from CULTURAL FORMATIONS IN TEXT-BASED VIRTUAL REALITIES --
> By ELIZABETH REID
> emr@xxxxxxxxxxx
> emr@xxxxxxxxxxx
> emr@xxxxxxx
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On Mon, 12 May 1997 GMCMILLAN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> ************************
> Re: Public punishments:
> ************************
>
>
> Punishment on MUDs shows a return to the medieval. While penal
> systems in the Western nations that form the backbone of the Internet-
> -the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom and Australia--have
> ceased to concentrate upon the body of the condemned as the site for
> punishment, and have instead turned to 'humane' incarceration and
> social rehabilitation, the exercise of authority on MUDs has revived
> the old practices of public shaming and torture. The theatre of
> authority in virtual reality is one which demands and facilitates a
> strongly dramaturgical element. All actions on MUDs must be overt,
> every nuance of experience must be manifestly represented for it to
> become part of the play, and so punishment must be flamboyant. The
> virtual world of a MUD exists in its dramatic strength only in the
> minds of its players, but the play enacted in the virtual world
> emulates the physical rather than the mental. The public spectacle of
> punishment, which Foucault describes as disappearing from the Western
> political scene between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is
> alive and well on MUDs.[8]
>
> -- from CULTURAL FORMATIONS IN TEXT-BASED VIRTUAL REALITIES --
> By ELIZABETH REID
> emr@xxxxxxxxxxx
> emr@xxxxxxxxxxx
> emr@xxxxxxx
>
>