The Representation of Individuality in Virtual Space (From the decidability of everyday life to the online interrupted subjectivity)

This article tries to study the Iranian subject's attempt to represent / construct her/his individuality in cyberspace. For doing so, in order to interpret the birth and development of Iranian subject, we have first introduced a brief description of the emergence of modern subject and its conceptual and concrete transformation, especially in late modernity; then we have analyzed the different dimensions of this embodied self-actualization by way of semiotic interpretation of images in virtual space. The findings showed that Iranian subject, in attempting to pursue the project of self-actualization in this era, has exactly encountered the same risks, ambivalences and contractions that have made his everyday life interrupted, conflicting and contradictory. Although this subject has achieved a variety of options to choose in the sphere of everyday life, but has lost his ability to self-actualization in the face of rituals and big other. The sterilization of everyday life in the real world in Iran and the attempt of individuals to revive it in virtual space has caused a life form in which interrupted subjects are born.