John Hopkins on Thu, 6 May 2010 18:59:54 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> .another internet is possible!_ [2x Morlock Elloi; Rob Myers] |
> That (attempted) change in the meaning of identity to something reified > and external can be seen in the push for database-stored and managed > government biometric (etc.) "identity" schemes. this shift occurred the first time someone wrote their name on a wax or clay tablet, or even earlier when painting a picture of themselves on a cave wall (or spatter-painted a stencil of their hand on the wall for that matter...) to participate in the techno-social system requires reductive and (awkwardly limited) multi-dimensional/discrete/discontinuous representations of the continuous and transitional full self, it's only a sliding scale of how much one 'allows' of the reductive process, and how much belief/faith/attention one gives to the representation of Self versus attentive intention to "the thing itSelf." The map is not the territory. {I exhale moisture onto the screen to clean from it the fingerprints of stabbed pointing at places on the map} jh ********************************************* John Hopkins Artist-in-residence, April 2010 Center for Land Use Interpretation http://clui.org Wendover, Nevada, USA http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ http://www.neoscenes.net/travelog/weblog.php chazhop@gmail.com jhopkins@neoscenes.net skype: chazhopkins ********************************************* # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org