if u are anon online, u dont need to worry abt women, HR ppl at work, or yr mother looking at yr neurotic & perverse posts. once you facedox you lose the comfort of anonymity and somehow become something less than you were... to become a "real person". that is symbolic castration
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Replying to @mcrumps
One thing that I'm genuinely interested in is why these sectors of twitter tend toward anonymity. Has anything been written on this topic? I often talk privately to some of the anonymous posters and then when we decide to Skype they turn their camera off! It's rather disquieting.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @mcrumps
I think it's mostly an extension of chan culture
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Replying to @poaststructural @mcrumps
So is it a mixture of shielding identity as form of saying what they want without impunity and possible repercussions, and a kind of Deleuzean posturing that 'oh look, we have shed our faces'?
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also in the mix is a certain pushback against web 2.0’s interlocking of everyone’s web experience with their social life, nostalgia for baked-in anonyminity of 90s web chat culture. i just use my name backwards which is admittedly weak crypto. always already doxxed is the move.
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Replying to @nollidruj @NegarestaniReza and
‘xenofeminism reserves the right of everyone to speak as no one in particular.’
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This always reminds of DG's dictum: To reach, not the point where one no longer says I, but the point where it is no longer of any importance whether one says I. Replace I with the word personal identity.
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Yeah, I'd say it's basically chan culture and oh so Deleuzian attitudes (at least for me). It's nice to step out of your meatspace costume, I guess.
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But there is something important here for me. Can one actually step of his/her meatspace costume by just adopting online anonymity? You see, I think of this in terms of people who say that oh we don't believe in self but then they go on and become the most egotistic people.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @great_old_ones_ and
Danah Boyd’s research is useful here. Really the question is the opposite: is it possible to be one’s singular authentic meatspace self online, and why on Earth would anyone want to if not for the desires of advertisers and censors?
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It's just desires like beliefs are not essentially commensurate with the constraints of reality.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @great_old_ones_ and
That’s more of a problem for singular meatspace identities. Boyd gives excellent examples. Is Twitter “reality”? If it is not, there is no problem. If it is, is the malleability of perceived identity unique to low-bit-rate “reality”. If it is more complex than that...
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Replying to @robmyers @NegarestaniReza and
The penultimate sentence of that needs a ?
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