There may be no better introduction to the phenomenology of the self in cyberspace than what comes of Foucault's archaeology of resemblance, specifically, the mirroring he unearths as the primary source of late sixteenth-century epistemology.  Within the period’s “semantic web of resemblance” (17), Foucault discovers aemulatio or emulation, a degree of “similitude [. . .] freed from the law of place and [. . .] able to function, without motion, from a distance” (19).  Like our experience in cyberspace, the       relation of emulation enables things to imitate one another from one end of the universe to the other without connection or proximity: by duplicating itself in a mirror the world abolishes the distance proper to it; in this way it overcomes the place  allotted to each thing. (19)