In Search of Haven imagines a world where identification is a path to “liberation” rather than control
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In Search of Haven imagines a world where identification is a path to “liberation” rather than control
Stories are how we gain a sense of control of the future because they supply us with a role in the story, a vector of meaning at every beat, and the promise of more meaning to come.
Ian Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
What the internet allows us to do is to see what we have in common. This resulted in a new experience of what it means to be a person. We have multiple lenses and identities ready to be activated at any given moment. They are meaningful. Digital avatars are just as meaningful to us as other identities.
Yancey Strickler • 36. Re-bundling the creator economy + labels in web3 w/ Yancey Strickler
Identitarianism is mirrored in—would not be possible without—the widespread preoccupation with authentic selves. In the future we may be able to look back at toxic wantrepreneurship, white entitlement, and identity politics both “left” and ethnonationalist as being underwritten by the same philosophical blunder.
subpixel space • After Authenticity
Being regarded as authentic is a function of others’ evaluation of your performance. But if everything is in upheaval, then those others doing the evaluating have few points of reference. Because the network society is global in character, identity is constantly being contested and threatened from all sides. The freedom of the paranoid, just like t
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Designer-Researchers Mindy Seu and Yasaman Sheri Imagine a New Internet
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