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- 1. Identity Wars: the End of Human Society How internet culture challenges the identity mappings that human society depends on. Christian Heller / plomlompom 2009-12-29 c-base, Berlin, Germany
- 2. overview â—Ź Top-Down-Imposition of Identities â—Ź Self-Imposition of Identities â—Ź Liberty of Identities â—Ź The Forging/Crafting of the Individual â—Ź The Dissolution of the Individual â—Ź Enter the Borganism
- 3. life: original nameless viriditas „Stro m petri atolites, fie t in the d biofilm hat is pre - Glac Siyeh roc about on cambrian ie k e http: r Nationa formatio billion ye //en. ars o wikip l Park, M n of ld edia. onta org/w n iki/Fi a, USA.“ le:St roma tolite s.jpg
- 4. life: original nameless viriditas ● life force evolutionarily permeates the universe ● chaotical start, without „order“ / taxonomy ● no purpose, no interest, no identity: no politics ● structures and differentiates itself into organical hierarchies and networks ● diversities of micro-machines → diversities of cells compose diversities of plants/animals/etc. … ● all interacting with each other in many complex ways, not one clear hierarchy
- 5. societies: made up of people Frontispiece to Thomas Hobbes' „Leviathan“ by Abraham Bosse, 1651
- 6. societies: made up of people â—Ź differentiated into hierarchies of: â—Ź discrete animal units (human individuals) and â—Ź superorganisms (societies) made up of configurations of these â—Ź determined taxonomically by a symbolic intelligence; orderly
- 7. peoples, cultures, nations, states „John Bull and his Friends by Fred W Rose, 1900“ Uploaded by peacay / Paul K, Licence: CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliodyssey/3668664529/
- 8. peoples, cultures, nations, states â—Ź identitary nature of social superorganisms â—Ź peoples, cultures, nations, states, organized religions, classes, guilds/unions, political parties, gender?, ... â—Ź superhuman superorganisms != free memeplexes â—Ź strive for stability â—Ź often strive for clear borders â—Ź their relations are powerful and political
- 9. superorganisms imposing identity „ID card in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia – 1943“ Author: „scanned by Krokodyl“, Licence: CC-BY-3.0 Unported http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protektoratni_obcanka_1943.jpg
- 10. superorganisms imposing identity ● credentials (by the state, the club, the guild, the university): ID card, membership, certificates ● legal identification and accountability ● cultural education ● „Gleichschaltung“ organically downwards ● authoritarian identity lock-ins ● Behave according to your identity! ● Your identity is what I say it is! (By order of God, Nature, History, Society.)
- 12. citizen / citoyen „Painting of a typical sans-culotte“ / Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sans-culotte.jpg „Roman clad in toga, from 1891 Dictionary of Classical Antiquities.“ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Toga_Illustration.png
- 13. citizen / citoyen â—Ź subjective internalization of, identification with society; pride â—Ź strong identification with superorganism, but bottom-up; responsible, creative shareholdership â—Ź illusion (!) of responsibility for identity (e.g. nationality, education hardly ever freely chosen) â—Ź top-down vs bottom-up: yet another political power struggle
- 14. „Vitruvian Man“ by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Da_Vinci_Vitruve_Luc_Viatour.jpg humanism and personalism „Bildnis der Mutter“, Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dürer_-_Bildnis_der_Mutter.jpg
- 15. humanism and personalism â—Ź individual personality â—Ź Christianity: absolute human dignity, equality, incommensurability; Human Rights â—Ź glorifying, romanticizing the individuals, their inner selves and their relations â—Ź individual human ego as the new bottleneck for identity â—Ź (previously: the upper superorganic hierarchies)
- 16. „Werther aus Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers“ ( Author: Chodowiecki http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:WertherAusDieLeiden DesJungenWerthersZeichnungChodowiecki.jpg The Individual Identity „L1001521“ / Author: Guido van Nispen License: CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/vannispen/3232494530/
- 17. The Individual Identity ● complex society with conflicting guidelines for behaviour → ● individual identity as the necessary new guiding scheme ● identity = responsibility ● create your own identitary, biographical narrative of goals, guilts, bindings ● draw on available identity resources ● not the same choices available for everyone
- 18. the fight for identitarian diversity „San Francisco Pride Parade“ / Author: Jere Keys License: CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/tyreseus/2623090047/
- 19. the fight for identitarian diversity â—Ź broaden the inventory of identity resources â—Ź broaden the social acceptance of certain identities in existing spaces â—Ź create new spaces accepting certain identities
- 21. „Klingon“ / Author: Official Star Wars Blog License: CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/starwarsblog/937407832/
- 22. „Cosplay – AWA14“ / Author: Michael Mol License: CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/28208534@N07/2874725130/
- 23. „Bowser cosplay“ / Author: Scott Rubin License: CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/apreche/212104671/
- 24. „Cosplay Candid: Next Generation“ / Author: Dave Fayram License: CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/davefayram/3756732259/
- 25. „Lucca Comics 2008 Cosplay“ / alessino License: CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/alessino/3000513168/
- 26. „Parade42“ / Author: Neil McIntosh License: CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/harlequeen/3319976312/
- 27. „Tron Guy @ ROFLcon“ / Author: Jeff Dlouhy http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlouhy/2449300778/ Licence: CC-BY 2.0
- 28. „Pedobear“ / Author: Dave Fayram License: CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/davefayram/3764302067/
- 29. „Parti Gras '09 in Clearwater“ / Author: Anonymous9000 License: CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/anonymous9000/3300270063/
- 30. „Zombie March Chicago 2008 - Image 067“ / Author: Eric Ingrum http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericingrum/2600378644/
- 31. „zombie walk“ / Author: zenobia_joy / License: CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/zenobia_joy/4005031407/
- 32. empowering identitarian liberty? â—Ź multiplication of identity resources â—Ź endless space for every imaginable identity â—Ź new socialities for identities give strengthening social feedback â—Ź traditional identity bottlenecks get goatsed
- 33. identitarian bottleneck incongruities „Operation Tea Party Hard 84“ / Author: Anonymous9000 License: CC-BY-2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/anonymous9000/3453159535
- 34. identitarian bottleneck incongruities â—Ź acceptance of imposed identity bottlenecks diminishes â—Ź choose the democracy that votes your way â—Ź have your cake and eat it, too â—Ź superorganisms lose control over flow of identity resources in their territory â—Ź loss of common background, socialization â—Ź digital globalization and its discontents â—Ź how to block? censorship? national internet?
- 35. „politics 2.0“ (for real)
- 36. „politics 2.0“ (for real) ● citizenships in superorganisms that surpass the size of most states, languages, religions ● Facebook: 350.000.000, MySpace: 100.000.000 ● USA: 300.000.000, German language: 200.000.000 ● Judaism: 13.000.000 ● non-binding, multiple citizenships ● freedom of movement
- 37. „politics 2.0“ (for real) Screenshots from sign-up dialogue of FetLife.com (300.000 members)
- 38. reality of new identity structures FetLife.com
- 39. reality of new identity structures â—Ź internet communities provide basic structure for identity, communication, action â—Ź importance is ever growing â—Ź 'digital' identity not much more artifical than the 'real' one
- 40. dissolution of individual integrity
- 41. dissolution of individual integrity â—Ź open-sourcing of identity â—Ź fake accounts, fake interpersonality of interactions â—Ź identitarian chat and twitter bots â—Ź post-private information overload destroys illusion of coherent personality â—Ź loss of individual predictability and responsibility
- 42. „Anonymous. Only 1000 of them. No more.“ / Author: Anonymous http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Image:Bdespairanonymous1000ks2.png
- 43. humanistic / personalistic racism FetLife.com
- 44. humanistic / personalistic racism ● prove your humanity! ● forced registration, identification, login ● one account only for one e-mail address! ● map everything to legally seizable social units ● surveillance for identification ● data retention laws / „Vorratsdatenspeicherung“
- 46. information politics? â—Ź new legal persons? â—Ź citizen rights and responsibilities for bot nets, fake accounts, borganisms, memes ...? â—Ź problems: non-binding, transient nature of new identity patterns â—Ź new legal bottlenecks will get bypassed quickly: new structures grow faster
- 47. information society: society of informations
- 48. information society: society of informations X
- 49. information society: XXXXXXX society of informations X
- 50. information
- 51. Literature ● Accelerando (Charles Stross) ● http://www.antipope.org/charlie/accelerando/ ● L'invention de soi. Une théorie de l'identité / Die Erfindung des Ich (Jean-Claude-Kaufmann) ● The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Julian Jaynes) ● We, Borg. Speculations on Hive Minds as a Posthuman State (Anders Sandberg) ● http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Posthumanity/WeBorg.html ● Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: „Personalism“ ● http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/personalism/