dissolving ontology

"As a consequence, we have reconstructed the self in the face of the dissolution of the ontological structures that have heretofore provided a validation of being. In the wake of this dissolution, as Scott Bukatman writes in Terminal Identity, we "humans" have arrived at "a new subjectivity constructed at the computer station or television screen."

-John W. Whitehead, Blade Runner What it Means to be Human in the Cybernetic State