via/ Bratton
“Perhaps it is something like this. An increase (+) in the intensity, granularity, reflexivity of techniques of self diagramming results in a strengthening (+) of the experience of self-coherency (what metric for such a thing? “Number of times someone begins a sentence with ‘I’ over the course of a year”?) But then, after further increase in the techniques (+) passing some as yet unnamed threshold point, “self” per se begins to crash (-) and the lived experience of the information space of the world is one of perforation and the dissolution of self into a more soupy flux. That soupy flux is the raw ingredients of some strange new language/advertising/data-verse to come that is based on some other unit than the now exploded individual. “
On the Quantified Self from “The Arc of Network Self-Dissolution”
(via penguinist)
