We're all clay monsters now

Created based on E.L. Zeitgeist’s question: What would happen if people had the option to get rid of their outward facing identities (race, gender, etc) via a procedure that replaces your skin with a plasticine substance? How would it affect society?

Alex Dobrenko

You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.

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What if we could embody a different relationship with time ? If we took other images from our world - spirals, zig-zags, rhizomes, crystals, the folds of a midnight flower, the pulsing undulations of the jellyfish - and allowed our narratives of becoming and transformation (personal or otherwise) to follow those contours and weaves, those meta... See more

Radiant Body of Time

- "Our algorithmic self may or may not be faithful to how we see ourselves, but it has just as many dimensions and secrets."

Emma Stamm • Who Can It Be Now — Real Life

cool to think about the online world as a version of us all putting plasticine substances on our faces???

I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else

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maybe our identity was never a fixed thing?? has the internet actually changed anything or is it always a creation of our own minds? Or a creation of our community - is identity something that emerges when someone else sees you, a la quantum lol

The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent--And Reinvent--Our Identities a book by Gregory Berns

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"It’s so strange how we’re able to carry forward this mystery of personal identity even when our present selves are so different from our future selves and from our past selves most of all. I think a lot about this question of, what is a person? Am I the same person as my childhood self? Sure, we share the same body, but even that body is so... See more

You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.

Radiant Body of Time

Emma Stamm • Who Can It Be Now — Real Life

I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else

The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent--And Reinvent--Our Identities a book by Gregory Berns

Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age