The Banana Peel Project

The commodification of personality; personhood; identity; self:::
How do we come to know ourselves through personal technologies? Objectification. Discourse is always material; what discourses do individuals participate in, internalize? Swirling, multifaceted, contradictory cultural meanings congeal into narratives that are not necessarily coherent; technologies fragment narratives and unify them. The self is the […]

the software suggests
since
MINIMAL_TECHNO.id3 : misshapen meter
::
EXPERIMENTAL_ELECTRONIC.id3 : hollowed-out sounds
then
I, a chimerical user, might also enjoy…
This morning, my mirrors intact and glasses askew
I woke up to the sound of stitching.
Protocol needled its way through me until I reflected on the reality
Of a mosaic existence.
When I wake up, cobbled from cumbersome statistics
And losing track of my edges,
It […]

i can only doubleclick myself,
and i’m only getting negative feedback
if:
hexadecimal colors are going to mean
freedom
then:
the narcissistic loop has got to be
broken
i wonder if there’s love (existentially, as in
existential friendship)
and, looking for you,
i find a reflection of me and this time
(i am sure)
i won’t be turned into a flower
instead, perhaps a dead leaf or
even worse
an automaton […]