H.G. Möller and "You and Your Profile" January 17th @ 12pm SLT
Subtitle = "Identity after Authenticity" ... oh my, is H.G. going to trigger the SL folk 🤣
What happens if you bring a professor of philosophy (is/are that/both words capitalized btw?) who also happens to be a prolific (there is that word again!) author of many books, a German person who teaches in China, who is a follower of Niklas Luhmann and has a wonderful YouTube channel, well what happens if this long sentence ends with me asking: what happens if I bring Hans-Georg Möller into Second Life where he has never been although he wrote an absolutely fantastic book about identity construction in the post-analog world?
I know you know what happened: he did not want to leave the virtual universe …
Especially because we went on a fieldtrip to London City in SL.
Immediatly, it started raining half rezzed avatars from the sky ….
…. a conversation with a SL’er by the name of Peanut ensued …
…and love was INSTANTLY in the air (although Georg had not even filled out his profile by this point!) …
… oh wait: did these hearts actually come from Peanut? Or someone else? So many suitors ….
Ok, I made up what happened, I admit it, but so what?
I am curating my profile as the CEO of SL (that is correct: CEO stands for “Chief Evangelism Officer”).
And as Georg deconstructs in his every-SLer-must-read-immediatly book, having a public profile that is carefully maintained through a self-administered selection/curation process (IMHO, as you know, if an algorithm is involved, this is quite a bit more problematic, but we shall talk about my concept of a METAVERSE FOR ALL another time), having such a public profile does not mean I am not sincere, or inauthentic.
And neither are you!
Or do you really want to always just look at the FACE IN THE MIRROR? (…better than seeing faces in the floor … uhm sorry .. Infinite Jest reference … sorry … compulsion …)
So: if you have trouble convincing your significant others from the physical realm that having a digital self is completely fine and - more importantly - if you want to convince Georg to permanently move to Second Life, do come to the show Wednesday January 17th at 12pm.
*** UPDATE 3/28: we redid the livestream on 3/27 because the original conversation was not recorded. Big thx to Georg for daring to come back into the mad and prolific SL universe 👇
See you in-world !
I run into this issue with some frequency. Stalkers are my bane, so I have had to separate into my normal social accounts and my SL social accounts. It is a little exhausting sometimes :)