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The Deeper Thinking Podcast
For those living through the strange persistence of their own archive.
What happens when the digital versions of ourselves continue to exist—and perform—long after we’ve emotionally, ethically, or ideologically moved on? In this episode, we confront the eerie automation of the past self: not preserved as memory, but reactivated as metric. With quiet references to the work of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Bernard Stiegler, and Erving Goffman, we explore what it means for identity to become an output, a residue, a cached result no longer under our authorship.
This is not a lament for privacy, nor a call for deletion. It is an inquiry into presence: who is performing our identity when we are no longer there? And what does it mean when systems remember us with greater fidelity than we remember ourselves?
Here are some provocations that surfaced during the episode:
If this episode resonated with you and you'd like to support this slower form of thinking, you can do so here: Buy Me a Coffee. Thank you for listening and staying with the questions.
Your archive still smiles. But you didn’t refresh.
#DigitalSelf #MemoryPerformance #Foucault #Butler #Stiegler #Goffman #AlgorithmicIdentity #PostHumanism #TheDeeperThinkingPodcast #EpistemicEthics #ArchivedSelf #MediaPhilosophy
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The Deeper Thinking Podcast
For those living through the strange persistence of their own archive.
What happens when the digital versions of ourselves continue to exist—and perform—long after we’ve emotionally, ethically, or ideologically moved on? In this episode, we confront the eerie automation of the past self: not preserved as memory, but reactivated as metric. With quiet references to the work of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Bernard Stiegler, and Erving Goffman, we explore what it means for identity to become an output, a residue, a cached result no longer under our authorship.
This is not a lament for privacy, nor a call for deletion. It is an inquiry into presence: who is performing our identity when we are no longer there? And what does it mean when systems remember us with greater fidelity than we remember ourselves?
Here are some provocations that surfaced during the episode:
If this episode resonated with you and you'd like to support this slower form of thinking, you can do so here: Buy Me a Coffee. Thank you for listening and staying with the questions.
Your archive still smiles. But you didn’t refresh.
#DigitalSelf #MemoryPerformance #Foucault #Butler #Stiegler #Goffman #AlgorithmicIdentity #PostHumanism #TheDeeperThinkingPodcast #EpistemicEthics #ArchivedSelf #MediaPhilosophy
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