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

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 patt... See more

Radiant Body of Time

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

Freddie DeBoer freddiedeboer.substack.com

If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.

Matter

despite believing myself to be an integrated self, I talk to myself as if I am composed of several ‘people’.

Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote

Radiant Body of Time

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

Matter

Andrew Spira • The Invention of the Self