sovereign self
Brand new day
Spider-Man, Brand New Day meets Peer Gynt. A scar, a bow and a bed. Three proofs of identity no database can issue. Final episode of three.
Sovereign Self
If the algorithm takes the self, what is left?
The institutions that were built to recognise you, the press, the state, the public square, the contract between editor and citizen, were built to give you status. Not attention. Not reach. Status, the recognition that you are a person whose judgement counts.
That status erodes where concentrated power and AI produce noise at scale, algorithmic volume displacing the slow, unprofitable work of recognition.
Sovereign Self is the work of keeping hold of yourself while the conditions for being recognised are rewritten around you.
Briefs in this track
sovereign self
Asking the dead for directions
Hegel on recognition in the age of metrics. Why a thousand views is not one friendship, and how to triangulate yourself. Episode two of three.
sovereign self
Call me Nobody
Homer's Odyssey meets Spider-Man. Pseudonymity, the attention economy, and the Ulysses contract that keeps you on course. Episode one of three.
sovereign self
The company has a brand. You have a self
On personal identity in the age of AI. A company can rebrand. A person cannot. Locke, Hume and Kierkegaard on the self behind your profiles.