Lana
@lanacosic
Lana
Few people seem to use the word for their whole physical organism. “I have a body” is more common than “I am a body.” We speak of “my” legs as we speak of “my” clothes, and “I ” seems to remain intact even if the legs are amputated. We say, “I speak, I walk, I think, and (even) I breathe.” But we do not say, “I shape my bones, I grow my nails, and I
... See moreAlan Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
We are familiar from existential phenomenology with the claim that my body is not something I “have,” but something I “am.” What I am suggesting here, however, is that my body is something I do (cf. Ames, 1984, p. 48). And if we ask “who” does this, the answer is not a punctiformal ego with its body over-against it, but rather a dilated kinaestheti... See more
Enhancing Development Policies through Communication Approaches
Elizabeth A. Behnke, Ghost Gestures
Ultimately, I argue for a view of the self and of identity that is the opposite of the personal brand: an unstable, shapeshifting thing determined by interactions with others and with different kinds of places.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I’m not sure that I exist actually. I’m all the writers that I have read; all the people that I have met; all the women that I loved; all the cities that I visited”
I will always make my toast with olive oil because that’s how my dad makes his;
I will always make salad dressing with oil and vinegar because that’s how mom makes hers;
My boots ar
... See moreIdentity is not a set of fixed attributes, the unchanging essence of the inner self, but a constantly shifting process of positioning...identity is always a never-completed process of becoming — a process of shifting identifications, rather than a singular, complete, finished state of being.
The man who discovered media codes and how to resist them
This constant addition and subtraction of experiences can keep us mindful that we are in a continual state of fluidity. There is no set list of qualities that define who we are, so there is no reason to panic if you feel a shift occurring.
Lawrence Yeo • Death: The Roommate of Life - More To That
In order to live in Sarajevo,there was no need to identify Sarajevo. But now, those who die inSarajevo die from the death of Sarajevo itself; they die from the pos-sibility—imposed by gunfire — of identifying some substance orpresence by this name, a presence measured by the yardstick of the“national” or the “state,” a body-symbol set up precisely ... See more