[-empyre-] Avataric -

[John Craig Freeman]

On Apr 21, 2011, at Thu, Apr 21, 10:00 PM, <empyre-request at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au> <empyre-request at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au> wrote:

> I think his (your) post is overly optimistic; you say "In the twenty-first
> century, not only is identity not fixed or inherited, it is absolutely
> malleable, subject to continuous invention and re-invention. It is, in
> short, avataric." - and I just don't see this, given the current (and
> foreseeable future) political/economic climate. Class identity in the US
> is hardening;


Hi Alan, Sorry if I came of optimistic about this. Actually, I find it very disturbing. As a rule I try to avoid value judgement in these matters and rather simply observe a make work about it. A case in point is Donald Trump, who has fluidly transformed from real-estate mogul to reality show celerity and now possibly republican president, ack! 

Please don't check out on the discussion yet. Let's see it through the end of the month. 

ManifestAR @ ICA opens this afternoon. http://manifestarblog.wordpress.com/ica/


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