Show me you, in a human information photograph!

[imomus]

We're ASCII/QWERTY characters on a computerized network. We're opinions. We're links. We're theories and narrative and arguments, we're words, words, words. It passes the time. It's legible. But we're also faces and bodies, we're visible, and sometimes that interesting fact gets forgotten. Sometimes, here in "the wilderness of opinion", that might be rather interesting to see.

So today I want to ask you to do something very simple and obvious. So simple and obvious, in fact, that I've never thought of doing it in four years of blogging. I just want you to post a photograph of yourself, one that shows what you look like, something bigger and more literal than your icon. Show me you, in a human information photograph, down in the comments section. You don't need to say much, just appear, be visual, be here.



Here's me, but you probably know what I look like by now. I certainly do. The interesting bit, for me, is you. The interesting bit begins below. Let's become a visible crowd, a vertical crowd. Let's make an unmasked ball of sorts. Hello!

Comments

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I think our body/mind split has become chronic and terminal when even showing that we have have faces and bodies is "narcissism".

[(Anonymous)]

If you have assumed, before this campaign, that the posters here do not in general have faces and bodies, then surely something else has become chronic and terminal. It's showing the particular faces and bodies, especially by people who never show words, that is narcissistic.

Also, interesting to see what a diverse bunch of people your journal attracts.

der.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It's showing the particular faces and bodies, especially by people who never show words, that is narcissistic.

You know, der's right, folks. From now on, don't show your particular face and body, just a general essence. And only if you normally post your opinions here. If you just read Click Opera quietly, making yourself known now is sheer narcissism!

[beverlyhillscop.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, yes.