These are just a few excerpts from Small Pieces Loosely Joined that I wanted to preserve here for my research purposes.

BODIES AND THE WEB:
“Our idea of knowledge, however, has consistently moved away from the truths of the body. Knowledge, our tradition of thought tells us, is universal, dispassionate, eternal and objective – exactly what bodies are not. The truths of the body are even taken to be the enemies of knowledge. This basic stance comes with the Greek origins of knowledge: we need the discipline of knowledge because bodily perception can be misleading. Knowing has ever since struck us as a pursuit for ascetics, virgin professors, and nerds uncomfortable in their own skins. Knowing, we’ve come to believe, is the type of things that a machine – a computer, or a robot – might do. And it is no accident that the voices of authority that try to shut us up – whether a bad government, a bad teacher, or a bad boss – do so by implicitly claiming to be ‘realistic,’ a code word for the claim that the authority sees the world more ‘objectively’ and without the ‘distortions’ of perspective and interest.
“It would be ironic, then, if the Web, a world our bodies cannot enter, were to return knowledge to the truths of the body: tied to an individual, oriented by a particular viewpoint, rooted in passion (139).”

COMP AND THE WEB:
“Nevertheless, the Web’s character comes from text, and that’s not likely to change in the foreseeable future. Words build the place in which the other forms of media are embedded. Words are the stuff of the Web.
“Words impart their nature to the Web. Although words are pineal, they aren’t mainly physical and ‘merely’ meaningful. Quite the contrary. They can be words only because they are units of meaning … Words have always built worlds, just as they build the Web (164).”. More on page 165 that is too long to type.

MISC.
“On the Web, there’s only passion, words, and the presence of others, in grand, shifting, ineffably messy relationships. … The virtual world of the Web exposes more clearly the truth of our everyday lives (171).”