>[!note] “*do we really need more mirrors? how about some portals to somewhere new?*” # notes --- - [[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]] - [[{3.4} we're living in a doppelganger culture where we act as other to people's beliefs]] - [[{3.4a} your online presence is a doppelganger]] - [[{3.4a1} 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]] - [[{3.4b} the mirror world is where people end up when their views are too extreme or fringe for traditional social media]] - [[they know about cellphones]] - [[{3.4b1} once an issue is picked up in mirror world, it becomes untouchable]] - [[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]] - [[thinking is a form of doubling]] - [[an information commons should be a basic civil right]] - [[the shadow lands]] - [[friction doesn’t disappear just because we don’t ese it]] - [[the point of doubling is often to avoid]] - [[{1.3} partitioning, performing, and projecting]] - [[{1.3a} we have to un-self collectively]] - [[big tech has become imperial and extractive]] # highlights --- - [[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]] ![[shock is the gap that opens up between event and existing narratives|clean no-title]] ## [[our doppelganger culture]] ![[our doppelganger culture|clean no-title]] ## [[when a human being becomes a set of data... everything shrinks]] ![[when a human being becomes a set of data... everything shrinks|clean no-title]] ## [[to prove... that i do indeed exist, i needed to give the machine fresh content]] ![[to prove... that i do indeed exist, i needed to give the machine fresh content|clean no-title]] ## [[there are just so damn many of us out there trying to be unique]] ![[there are just so damn many of us out there trying to be unique|clean no-title]] ## [[foreclosing on prerogative to change]] ![[foreclosing on prerogative to change|clean no-title]] ## [[{1q.4a} triad of partitioning performing and projecting]] ![[{1q.4a} triad of partitioning performing and projecting|clean no-title]] ## [[brands are not built to contain our multitudes]] ![[brands are not built to contain our multitudes|clean no-title]] ## [[the canvas of the self is compact and near]] ![[the canvas of the self is compact and near|clean no-title]] ## [[the more we accept the premise that we must be online for everything the more data points tech companies hoover up about us]] ![[the more we accept the premise that we must be online for everything the more data points tech companies hoover up about us|clean no-title]] ## [[we are all data mine sites now]] ![[we are all data mine sites now|clean no-title]] ## [[many of us want nothing more than to find another person who knows what it's like to live in our bodies and minds]] ![[many of us want nothing more than to find another person who knows what it's like to live in our bodies and minds|clean no-title]] ## [[a feeling of near violent rupture between the world of words and the world beyond them]] ![[a feeling of near violent rupture between the world of words and the world beyond them|clean no-title]] ## [[performing and partitioning and projecting are the individual steps that make up the dance of avoidance]] ![[performing and partitioning and projecting are the individual steps that make up the dance of avoidance|clean no-title]] ## [[there is you and there is brand you]] ![[there is you and there is brand you|clean no-title]] # trail --- - [Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein | The StoryGraph](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c014e12a-8eb2-44e2-8e54-e61a22b420af) - [A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Nancy L. 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