[!note] “do we really need more mirrors? how about some portals to somewhere new?”

notes

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• 2024-12-16 reflections after reading doppelganger
• {1.1c2a} shock disrupts the continuity of one's identity and their understanding of their inner and outer worlds
• {3.2} we're living in a doppelganger culture where we act as other to people's beliefs
• {3.2b} your online presence is a doppelganger
  • {3.2b1} the machine-made doppelganger is our real digital doppelganger
  • {1.2a1a2a1} digital identity maintenance requires feeding the machine
• {7.1} the body as a means of control
  • {7.1a} atomization and body control in men versus women
  • {7.1b} body people in the business of bodies
  • {7.2} aging as body doubling
• {3.2a1} the mirror world is where people end up when their views are too extreme or fringe for traditional social media
  • {3.1b1a2a} they know about cellphones
  • {3.2a1b} once an issue is picked up in mirror world, it becomes untouchable
  • {3.2a} we don't just disagree on the shape of reality, we disagree on who is in reality
• {1.2a1a2a2} a brand is a promise of consistency and dependability
  • {1.2a1a2a} many of us are turning our digital personas into personal or lifestyle brands
• {1.2a2d1a} collapse of the self
• diagonolism describes the combination of disparate political and cultural ideologies between the right and left
• {4.3b3} thinking is a form of doubling
• an information commons should be a basic civil right
• {1.3a1} the shadow lands
  • friction doesn’t disappear just because we don’t see it
• the point of doubling is often to avoid
  • {1.3} partitioning, performing, and projecting
  • {1.3a} we have to un-self collectively
• {3.2b1c} big tech has become imperial and extractive

highlights

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• i have found a way to live to the side of my name
• chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered
• come for the nectar of approval, stay for the frisson of virtual death
• it made me more curious to meet whoever showed up
• the search for calm is the reason i write
• the reason to study systems is because it is stabilizing
• if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less
• to accept one's past is not the same thing as drowning in it
• cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it
• haunt the dreams of your comrades, and the nightmares of your enemies
• vertigo invades when the world we thought we knew no longer holds
• no one makes themselves; we all make and unmake one another
• becoming unfamiliar to oneself need not be a horrifying experience; i have found it to be transcendent
• identity is not fixed

shock is the gap that opens up between event and existing narratives [UNABLE TO LOCATE EMBED]

our doppelganger culture [UNABLE TO LOCATE EMBED]

when a human being becomes a set of data... everything shrinks

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to prove... that i do indeed exist, i needed to give the machine fresh content

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there are just so damn many of us out there trying to be unique [UNABLE TO LOCATE EMBED]

foreclosing on prerogative to change [UNABLE TO LOCATE EMBED]

{1q.4a} triad of partitioning performing and projecting

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brands are not built to contain our multitudes [UNABLE TO LOCATE EMBED]

the canvas of the self is compact and near [UNABLE TO LOCATE EMBED]

the more we accept the premise that we must be online for everything the more data points tech companies hoover up about us

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we are all data mine sites now

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many of us want nothing more than to find another person who knows what it's like to live in our bodies and minds [UNABLE TO LOCATE EMBED]

a feeling of near violent rupture between the world of words and the world beyond them

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performing and partitioning and projecting are the individual steps that make up the dance of avoidance

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there is you and there is brand you

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trail

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• Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein | The StoryGraph
• A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Nancy L. Rosenblum, Russell Muirhead | The StoryGraph
• vertiginous - Google Search
• the corporate self naomi klein syllabus - Google Search
• Unknown
• The Corporate Self: Naomi Klein in Conversation with Amy Jordan - International Communication Association
• Naomi Klein Addresses Technology and Self-Branding Through her Undergraduate Class, The Corporate Self
• Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne | The StoryGraph
• The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt | The StoryGraph
• https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/708bce70-9eef-4b23-84cf-655ba95de946
• https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca
• https://repeaterbooks.com/product/after-the-fact-the-truth-about-fake-news/
• https://oldfirehousebooks.com/book/9781250878601