Re: [-empyre-] mobile media

["Ana Valdes" <agora158@gmail.com>]

I should be glad to include in the discussion Rosi Braidottis work
with "Nomadic Identities". Braidotti, a genus theorist, is based in
Utrecht, Nederlands, and works with the theses of a fragmented
identity, adaptable to many enviroments and situations.
Since Lyotard and Baudrillard formulated the postmodern condition as a
fragmented and chaotic reality where the individual and the collective
were dissolved as entities, the idea of a hegemonical identity feels
not longer relevant.
Ana


On 9/14/06, Jenny Weight <jenny.weight@rmit.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi Joanna
>
> I like your point about multiple selves and fluid identities, as Bauman
> would call it--although he's a bit negative about it--and my Phd
> research is in this are too.
>
> I think we've got to get passed the idea that self is singular and
> stable. Our pervasive technologies and in particular the phone, which
> allows this little windows into another reality which is with us all the
> time, shows that we are actually really good at juggling multiple
> realities and identities. Not many people go psychotic as a result ...
>
> I think the idea of stable selves is maybe a modernist--or
> earlier--thing that our collaborations with pervasive technologies are
> gradually talking us out of. This is an effect of computer games, too,
> and maybe other social software.
>
> You might be right about getting closed off from spontaneous contact
> with others. In some ways I think the phone is an apocalyptic
> technolgoy. It is a displacement technology...
>
> cheers jenny weight, rmit
>
>
> Jenny Weight
> Lecturer in networked and programmed media
> School of Applied Communication, RMIT
> 61 03 992 53022
>
>  skype me! callto://geniwate2
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