Philosopher Hubert Dreyfus (2001) joined up with Borgmann in very early critical engagement using the ethical probabilities of the online world; like Borgmann, Dreyfus’s reflections in the ethical dimension of online sociality evince an over-all suspicion of these companies being an impoverished replacement for the thing that is real. Like Borgmann, Dreyfus’s suspicion can be informed by their phenomenological origins, which lead him to target their attention that is critical on Internet’s suspension system of completely embodied existence. Continue reading →