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

what is my relationship to my impersonal self?

Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein • 4 highlights

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Cover of Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else

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- "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???

to the extent that we are identified as a ‘self’, we are merely a performance of the possibilities latent in language.

Andrew Spira • The Invention of the Self

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

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