Post-individualism
Severin Matusek and
Post-individualism
Likes, friends and followers do not provide us with resonance; they only strengthen the echoes of the self.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
Sarah Perry • Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.
someone who has low self-esteem is really a narcissist in disguise, because both share the obsession with the self, no matter if it’s awesome or awful.
Alex Dobrenko • What Does Your Stupid Art Even Do for the World?
we grew up and got it drilled into us that the problem is dependence. Don’t be needy.
Freya India • The Age of Abandonment
The antithesis is that collectivist coordination is its own reward; that we “formation fly” because we simply like mutuality and interdependence more than isolation and independence, and any collectivizable rewards for doing so are simply gravy.
Venkatesh Rao • Narrative Slipstream Effects
I’m curious about religion for many of the same reasons I’m curious about open source. They’re organizational systems that bind people tightly together, and whose norms, fascinatingly, didn’t derive from any one place, but rather from a shared consensus iterated upon by each passing generation.
Nadia Asparouhova • Public Faith
Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Careenium? What is the meaning of the word "1"?
Achilles and Tortoise engage in a philosophical dialogue exploring concepts of free will, identity, and consciousness within a metaphorical framework of marbles and symmballs in a careenium, illustrating complex mental processes.
legacy.cs.indiana.eduthe origina of “I” - wow