Miller, J. Hillis. ‘stay! Speak. Speak. I Charge Thee to Speak’, Culture Machine, 2000. (reviewed 3 February 2005).

From something I wrote an age ago:

Digitally mediated interactions [are] a realm that is generally problematising our understandings of public and private. Literary theorist, J. Hillis Miller gives a somewhat cautionary account of how “new technologies bring the unheimlich ‘other’ into the privacy of the home. They are a frightening threat to traditional ideas of the self as unified and as properly living rooted in one dear particular culture-bound place, participating in a single national culture, firmly protected from any alien otherness. They are threatening also to our assumption that political action is based in a single topographical location, a given nation-state with its firm boundaries, its ethnic and cultural unity.�

I’m not as concerned as him about this(!), but he nails the strangeness of being alone and connected all at once.