读麦·讲演·人与媒介（1979）·009

The nobody in real life is a person who becomes quite intractable, quite violent as a way of rediscovering “Who am I” and “How do I re-establish my image, myself in this world.” Our popular forms of entertainment tend toward that direction. Whether it’s Westerns or whodunits or horror movies or just about any other kind of movie, these are movies in which people are questing for their identity.

现实生活中的无名之辈是一个很难对付、非常暴力的人，以暴力作为一种重新发现“我是谁”和“我如何在这个事件重建我的形象、重建自我”的方式。我们的流行娱乐形式朝着这个方向发展。无论是西部片、悬疑片、恐怖片还是其他类型的电影，人们都是从中寻找他们的身分。

按：电子环境里人群的组织模式迥异于书面-机械的人际组织模式，交流合作将覆盖对身分的追求。寻找身分、暴力及其表达都是书面-机械人在电子环境里的挣扎。