World Wide Soul: Post-Identity and Network Spirituality
Electronic workshops in computing 2024 DOI: 10.14236/ewic/pom24.2 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Soul Spirituality Identity music Aesthetics Epistemology |
| Key points | Proposes that online posting as a collective, machinic practice enables new forms of identity and spirituality through 'memetic egregores', challenging traditional copyright and authorship frameworks. |
Abstract
This essay engages with online posting as a machinic beyond, observing how networks increase the proliferating potential of memetic egregores. What is like to post like a machine? To relinquish monolithic identity and build new multiple ones, as if trained by the collective intelligence of online rings via collective posting swarms, questioning traditional copyright frameworks while celebrating appropriation, spontaneous collaboration, post-authorship and performative identity. Encapsulating concerns such as extinction, love and collapse, these communing rituals embody the concept of noosphere – a collective consciousness or an interconnected network of minds. Sprawling in multiple and disperse egregores, network spirituality pro-poses new modes of being within the emerging conditions of planetary existence.