But it was below body, so it was not a body. Since when was it even a machine? It did not have a function in itself. Hypertext did not need to function for capitalism. That assumption implied the submission of all interactivity in this ÔbodyÕ to an ÔinevitabilityÕ of capitalism and globalization. And, as McLuhan (1966: 66) offers, nothing was inevitable if we were willing to look around.