Wegenstein writes on page 32 that, "The medium that signifies the body, its representation, no longer is any different from the 'raw material' of the body itself. Without mediation the body is nothing." This relationship of the representation to the raw material of the body is crucial to our bodies' relationship to technology. Much like Lacan's idea of the infant staring into the mirror to find a body-in-pieces, only to form a mental misrecognition of its body based on this, the pervasiveness of internet-based identities in society fuels this acceptance of misrecognition through fragmentation. The internet provides us with a medium to willingly fragment ourselves, disperse our bodies and our identities into many little fragments which are spread amongst the myriad of ways to represent oneself online: Facebook, Twitter, blogs, Flickr, on and on. Increasingly, this seems to be the definition of presence that people accept for themselves and others. "The recognition of one's self in a deceptive image that is framed by somebody else's gaze, a mirror, a screen" helps form this experienced embodiment. We encourage this deceptiveness through the distance of the stranger's gaze upon the screen into our embodiment. When these fragments are projected back onto ourselves by the outside world, into some new composite that doesn't seem to be what the body is in real life, we begin to accept this as our embodiment. This representation of the body seems very distant from the raw material of the body itself.