Theory of the E-book puts forward (in an overdramatized fashion) the idea of the e-book as essentially being an object of spiritual existence. Basically, exhuming the body of Rene Descartes for some old fashioned mind-body dualism.

But, of course, this isn’t inspired by the Cartesian demon, but rather by the modern ‘brain in jar held be aliens’ formulation.

Actually, I like to think of it as the manga formulation – the e-book as the literal ghost in the shell. Meh.