Hymenoptera Apocrita
As you eliminate your body on the web, you recuperate it in your physical location.
Sometimes you have a body, sometimes you don’t.
If you don’t have a body, you’re not there.
If you have a body, you are so there that your relationship with the world is what I call proprioceptive. It’s tactile. It’s not visual as it was during the Renaissance.
In the Renaissance, what was your identity? It was the outer limit of skin, a head that processed information, a dumb universe shown as a spectacle.
Identity became a point of view.
Today, identity is a point of being. We add the new possibilities of mixed identities, collective identities, just-in-time identities, fabricated identities.
There’s great flexibility, but the core business of self remains, just extended all over the planet by electronic extensions.
Derrick de Kerckhove – Wired October 1996
pro·pri·o·cep·tive – relating to stimuli that are produced and perceived within an organism, especially those connected with the position and movement of the body.
End of life begets new life. Death may toss aside memories, but consciousness returns in a new dimension.
Amen! PS Are those dead bees? What’s going on?
I see how last year’s comment could have been misleading.
No, those wasps are alive and kicking (!) having returned again in 2024. I could post a fresh photo but it would look the same. The only difference is that this year I haven’t been stung yet, but you know how I like to test fate.
I was careless the other day and got stung on top of my left hand, the swelling has gone down so much that my skin is wrinkly.