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We need to engage more with constant_escape, it's getting tragic.

Well we form our identities in negotiation with the public space we inhabit. Online, this is done very explicit, there's only a limited number of parametres to your character. It's flat, it's an avatar, manufactured. The posts we post are not our literal thoughts and emotions. They can be...

That sounds terrifying.

This sort of thinking: can you change how you think of your dissensus identity without posting and seeing others react and internalising the general perception. No, this is the feedback loop of online identity construction. It's imperative that this logic stays online.

We all have inner lives. They don't have to be immutable congenital essential traits, but just because identity is performative, because we construct our selves in action don't make us not real. That's not naive romantic thinking, that's genuinely the experience of living we have. Identity on...

even though we might all just be an aggregate of disparate memories, ideas, beliefs, experiences, there's still only one of us

of course we have unique selves

boring belief for someone who prides himself on believing what is interesting and nurishing

Yes we are being warned continually not to stray off course. Same with the paranoid stereotype of the consipiracy theorist. Don't go near that person!

Another place where resistance is futile is culture wars. There is no escape. Political charges have been attached to every move you make. The idea of autonomous thought crumbles. Even saying that, you can feel the eyes on you, pulling you into the game. Art is supposed to be that outside. Some...

I feel that sense sometimes that your participation is costantly being demanded. If there is an 'outside' then you are under constant pervasive pressure not you engage with it. You get those funny looks. People get suspicious, you become that weird kid in high school. If you look happy being...

They've completely lost the plot at Barca. This is farcical. They're going to become like Man Utd or Milan when Messi retires.

ah that, thanks

Really? Always thought he was castrated by his dad

The key to getting started is just to only do as much as you're comfortable with. If you go in and feel like you have push yourself out of the comfort zone, you will just feel anxiety about it and stop working out altogether. Don't work out so hard you get sore for days, that's ridiculous...

Makes me think of the Castrati. A lot was sacrified for art in the name of divine service.

Hard to generalize on that. There are versions of this where you just know it's fake, possibly diversionary maneuvres. There are also certain styles of self-deprecating humour that I find extremely sanctimonious.

that was a poor input to the tread, sorry corpsey

Been meaning to read this book called Masks: Bowie and Artists of Artifice. An anthology of articles about identity, consciousness, art, irony and all that, focusing on Bowie, Burroughs and others. There's a contribution by Zizek in there as well.

What does race being a social construct mean? Just the opposite of biological essentialism?