The androcentric concept of sexuality that associates penetration with the exploration of hidden depths and the achievement of power and knowledge is unmasked as necrophiliac. However, by constructing a lover/narrator, the series manages to unsettle perceptions of love in an era of gender fluidity and technologically mediated intimacy. Sexuality requires a basic human sameness from which a host of differences emerge that may or may not be gendered. Perspectives of attachment, existentialism, and neuroscience would argue that individuals can only exist within relationship and thus the notion of an autonomous self is a myth, an attempt to disavow our inherent embeddedness with others. Yet, as interpersonal dimensions of interaction expand with the rise of technologically mediated communication, ‘genuine’ face-to-face relationships erode while interconnectivity and digital entanglement expands.
