Introduction text excerpt from Digital Anthropophagy theoretical essay
Anthropophagy:
Anthropophagy: (Greek: anthropos, “human being” + phagein, “to eat”) is the eating of human flesh. Main definitions:
•Cannibalism, the eating of human flesh by a human or humans
•Self-cannibalism, the eating of one’s own flesh
•Eucharist, the ceremonial eating of Jesus’s body as wine and bread
Digital Anthropophagy:
From Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez
•All of the above Anthropophagic practices if done virtually, i.e., with the aid of computers, social online networking, and other digital devices; or if executed in reality but facilitated digitally.
•A new paradigm of input/output models generated via the internet.
•A new practice of cultural consumption involving a technological mediation for input (both the feeding and the being fed), digestion, and output.
