> That (attempted) change in the meaning of identity to something reified
> and external can be seen in the push for database-stored and managed
> government biometric (etc.) "identity" schemes.
this shift occurred the first time someone wrote their name on a wax or clay
tablet, or even earlier when painting a picture of themselves on a cave wall
(or
spatter-painted a stencil of their hand on the wall for that matter...)
to participate in the techno-social system requires reductive and (awkwardly
limited) multi-dimensional/discrete/discontinuous representations of the
continuous and transitional full self, it's only a sliding scale of how much
one
'allows' of the reductive process, and how much belief/faith/attention one
gives
to the representation of Self versus attentive intention to "the thing itSelf."
The map is not the territory.
{I exhale moisture onto the screen to clean from it the fingerprints of stabbed
pointing at places on the map}
jh
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John Hopkins
Artist-in-residence, April 2010
Center for Land Use Interpretation
http://clui.org
Wendover, Nevada, USA
http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/
http://www.neoscenes.net/travelog/weblog.php
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