In Search of Haven imagines a world where identification is a path to “liberation” rather than control
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In Search of Haven imagines a world where identification is a path to “liberation” rather than control
What does it mean to emerge from the abyss where uncertainty reigns and choose to build new boundaries using brand-new materials salvaged from the depths of your dreams’ unvarying darkness? From the very depths of the yawning gob of a being other than yourself?
from In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin
The digital realm, therefore, becomes a playground for our minds to project, interpret, and reimagine our identities.
from The Illusion of Self in the Digital Age: Unraveling Our Multiple Identities by Khalil Liouane
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- As the realm of virtual information complexifies, it is increasingly difficult to collectively experience, let alone agree on concrete descriptions of events. The platforms we use to communicate often lack archival affordances, optimizing instead for the nonstop production of new content. So context collapses and signifiers empty their meaning. Whe... See more
from How to Read the Internet by Libby Marrs
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- The shift to a locked-in world has accelerated the acceptance of identity as distinct from physical body or place. We still want to communicate, socialize, and play during this time but have only a digital version to offer. Those constraints are forcing new expressions of selfhood. This is in stark contrast to the masked, distant, de-individuated p... See more
from The Generalist by Mario Gabriele
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Under modernity, each person must be a piece in a jigsaw puzzle: completely unique but predictably so—a piece that is different from all those around it but still able to fit into a larger picture. We have more artifacts, both material and digital, than ever with which to enact our identities, yet we can never seem capable of staying unique for lon
... See morefrom The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America by David A. Banks
- If decentralized identity were widely adopted, people would be able to carry their full selves with them as they traverse cyberspace: their affinities and experiences reflected by what they’ve created, contributed to, earned, and owned online, no matter the specific platform. This would bring us closer to how things work in the physical world, wher... See more
from Decentralized Identity: Your Reputation Travels With You - a16z crypto by Scott Kominers
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- People co-create their identities with brands just as they do with religions, communities, and other other systems of meaning.
from After Authenticity by subpixel space
