Identity Category Archive
| Confession / Culture / Identity / Social / Stories

Everything

(rambling alert!!!) Everything is a node. And every node can be, at once, part of many contexts, and can also, just by being, create many contexts. Every node has many properties. And contexts can add and modify properties of nodes....


| Confession / Identity / Social / Travel

fragments

on lies: a necessary and healthy feature of sociality is lying. Lying is a feature, not a bug. The great dream of a utopian society is a system where lies are not necessary; the great nightmare, one where it...


| Confession / Identity / Social / Technology / URLs

Sound familiar?

"Attention Deficit Trait" caused by the technologies of constant interruption: Clive Thompson via Techdirt has a fascinating post on Attention Deficit Trait, a related sydrome to Attention Deficit Disorder, according to Dr. Edward Hallowell. "It has basically the symptoms as...


| Culture / Identity / Social / WebTech

Now what?

So AOL has updated it's Terms Of Use for AIM: Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title...


| Culture / Cyborg / Identity / Technology

Matt on Etech et al

Matt posted a rant about the upcoming ETech: It's just that the topics on offer: y'know - the copyfight, social software, bloody blogs, web services etc. might still be worthy topics for discussion, but I feel like I've been around...


| Confession / Culture / Cyborg / Identity / Social / Technology

In a postpostmodern state of mind.

In order to avoid ambiguity, over- or false- interpretation, it is crucial that one properly contextualize every element, in relation to every other element in it's environment. Meaning can only be found in the relationship of each object with each...


| Culture / Identity

Style

Style is the answer to everything. Fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous day. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without style. To do a dangerous thing with style, is what...


| Confession / Culture / Identity / Sing-along / Social

Identites and celebrity

"Madame Hollywood" Felix Da Housecat Everybody wants to be hollywood The fame, the vanity, the glitz, the stories One day I'll become a great big star You know like the big dipper And maybe one day you can visit my...


| Bits / Confession / Culture / Identity / Social

How am I not myself?

- Do I bring my own chains? - We always do... I ‚ô• Huckabees‚òÖ‚òÖ‚òÖ‚òÖ‚òÖ...


| Culture / Identity / Social

I and U

Jyri posits: What counts as a person? What might it mean to design not for preexisting, independent individuals with fixed boundaries but for partially known, locally enacted performances, out of which "individuals" may temporarily materialize as relational effects? How might...