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In fractured and (still) politically divided or contested societies or in (Western Europe or North America, as far as I can speak; Chris Domingo had also told us his story from Whyalla, Australia) only superficially integrated and non-isolated cultures and cultural communities, what would "distributed identity" mean -- would not such a term capture only an illusion?
It's no illusion, unfortunately -- I had an argument with Eric Kluitenburg about this -- if illusion means something has no tangible reality, this is impossible. I think a 'distributed identity' is an abstraction of embodied energy flows. When we use the protocols of the masters (FaceBook being a dominant model), and we 'connect' via those attenuated flow pathways that are governed by FB we are taking our embodied energies and 'giving' them to the techno-social system (of many overlapping systems) that is FaceBook. Giving life-time and life-energy to a screen is to take it away from (those in) the immediate surroundings of oneself. That life-energy/life-time is harvested, accumulated by those who control the protocols through which we express our remote presence. This is no illusion. Where our attentions (aka life-energy/life-time) are directed ultimately determines where power is concentrated in the techno-social system. This is no illusion (Just look up how much google spends on lobbying in Washington now!)...
hmm, maybe I am making no sense... it's a wider discussion predicated on a different world-view...
& now I have to peel myself away from the screen to put embodied energy into reconstructing a house that is suffering water damage from the desert monsoon season these days...
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