Often, we want everything to match, to look the same, to be part of a set that goes together.
But it is so much easier, and can be just as beautiful, when things don't match, don't look all the same -- when each piece, though it shares characteristics with others, does not look like an exact copy of the rest.
Dies ist ua zB auch das Fediverse und aber auch alternative Suchmaschinen wie @MetaGer, @Mojeek & SearXNG ect. doch nicht nur, sondern auch unser Verhalten soll nicht nur passives Konsumieren sein. Auch deswegen hier meine Toots / Posts, die vor allem über Technik geht aber um deren Nutzen von Menschen und ihren Schutz.
The Bronze Age people who wrote the bible, among many other ancient texts, knew that they were personally, physically going to die. The idea of eternity for them was a notion of #stewardship and family inheritance which softened the basic fact of mortality. Reading the posts today on #ClimateDeniers/ #ClimateDoomers it seems to me that we need to grasp the other side of Bronze Age wisdom, which was that because #life is finite responsibility for a good life reaches beyond the #individual.
"One is not #born, but rather becomes, a #woman. No #biological, #psychological, or #economic destiny defines the figure that the #human#female acquires in #society; it is #civilization as a whole that develops this product, intermediate between female and #eunuch, which one calls #feminine. Only the mediation of another can establish an #individual as an #Other. In so far as he exists for himself, the #child would not be able to understand himself as sexually differentiated. In #girls as in #boys the #body is first of all the radiation of a #subjectivity, the instrument that accomplishes the comprehension of the world: it is through the eyes, the hands, and not through the sexual parts that children apprehend the universe."
—Simone de #Beauvoir, philosopher and social theorist, in The Second Sex (1949)
Just my favorite Second Wave feminist, shattering the entire concept of the gender binary and "biological womanhood" in one masterful swoop.
#Digitization#Datafication#Individual: "A combination of political, sociocultural, and technological shifts suggests a change in the way we understand human rights. Undercurrents fueling this process are digitization and datafication. Through this process of change, categories that might have been cornerstones of our past and present might very well become outdated. A key category that is under pressure is that of the individual. Since datafication is typically accompanied by technologies and processes aimed at segmenting and grouping, such groupings become increasingly relevant at the expense of the notion of the individual. This concept might become but another collection of varied characteristics, a unit of analysis that is considered at times too broad—and at other times too narrow—to be considered relevant or useful by the systems driving our key economic, social, and political processes.
This Essay provides a literature review and a set of key definitions linking the processes of digitization, datafication, and the concept of the individual to existing conceptions of individual rights. It then presents a framework to dissect and showcase the ways in which current technological developments are putting pressure on our existing conceptions of the individual and individual rights."
"Much of the change needed to curb #ClimateChange quickly goes well beyond what any individual can do – from improving renewable energy infrastructure, to a rapid phase-out of #FossilFuels. But #individual actions can add up too."