Re: [-empyre-] mobile media

["Jenny Weight" <jenny.weight@rmit.edu.au>]

Hi Ana,

I don't know Braidotti, but I do suspect that these fluid identity 'mashups' that we make are an explicit response to the embedded, multiple realities we now experience. the idea of identity mashup is from Louis hyde.

cheeers jenny

Jenny Weight
Lecturer in networked and programmed media
School of Applied Communication, RMIT
61 03 992 53022

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>>> "Ana Valdes" <agora158@gmail.com> 14/09/06 6:56 PM >>>
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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