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The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
- “things of the world,” by which she means precisely the human-built world, in, as she put it, “stabilizing human life” — anchors of identity; but maybe not anchors but rather navigational beacons that help us map the self across time.)
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- “The existence of a public realm,” Arendt observed, “and the world's subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence.”
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- The texture of our experience is flattened out as a result.
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- The things of the world have the function of stabilizing human life, and their objectivity lies in the fact that […] men, their ever-changing nature notwithstanding, can retrieve their sameness, that is, their identity, by being related to the same chair and the same table. In other words, against the subjectivity of men stands the objectivity of t... See more
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Perhaps the best way of conceptualizing this is to say that the device over-consolidates the materiality of reading in a way that smooths out the texture of our experience.
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- “What was some time ago dubbed (erroneously) ‘post-modernity’ and what I've chosen to call, more to the point, ‘liquid modernity,’” Bauman explained, “is the growing conviction that change is the only permanence, and uncertainty the only certainty.” This liquidity characterizes not only the functions of capital, the status of institutions, and the ... See more
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- I’m especially taken by the idea of exploring how material culture changes the texture of our experience because the phrase itself points us toward a more tactile mode of exploration.
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- At the very least, it becomes an always available potential portal into my past.
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- the changing texture of material culture in digital society and the attendant consequences for how we experience the continuity of the self.
enduring relationships anchor our identity or our sense of self.
The self is not exactly fixed. It undoubtedly evolves over time, it is multi-faceted, and, critically, it escapes our full comprehension. All of t... See morefrom The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self by L. M. Sacasas
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