The Elastic Self

Ask me anything   Ohai! Welcome to my research blog where I archive material about identity making. I'm still working through my theory, but do take a look at An Xiao's lovely article that uses my theory of the Elastic Self to explain the cultural value of social media, such as Tumblr. I gave a talk about the Elastic Self at the first Tumblr Arts Symposium, scrub to 1:11 for my talk. I do a lot of research on Chinese youth, so you'll find lots of info about that topic. The one minute version of Elastic Self so far: The Elastic Self is both the feeling that one's identity is flexible and the action of trying on different identities that are different from a prescribed self. Individuals enact and manifest the Elastic Self in informal spaces that provide social distance from existing social ties and under conditions of relative anonymity, which minimizes social risks. In the presence of unknown others (strangers), individuals feel liberated to try on different identities without pressure to commit to an identity, to take greater risks in expressing ideas or emotions, and to try on selves that are reversible, easy to abandon, and impermanent.

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    The Consumer Revolution in Urban China 
Deborah S. Davis (
After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China’s cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype unimaginable just ten years ago. In this first in-depth treatment of the consumer revolution in China, fourteen leading scholars of Chinese culture and society explore the interpersonal consequences of rapid commercialization.
In the early 1980s, Beijing’s communist leadership advocated decollectivization, foreign trade, and private entrepreneurship to jump-start a stagnant economy, while explicitly rejecting any notion that economic reforms would promote political change. However, by the early 1990s the reforms in the marketplace not only produced double-digit growth but also enabled ordinary citizens to nurture dreams and social networks that challenged official discourse and conventions through millions of daily commercial transactions. Using participant observation, contributors to this book describe and analyze a wide range of these changing consumer practices: luxury housing, white wedding gowns, greeting cards, McDonald’s, discos, premium cigarettes, bowling, and more.

    The Consumer Revolution in Urban China 

    Deborah S. Davis 

    After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China’s cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype unimaginable just ten years ago. In this first in-depth treatment of the consumer revolution in China, fourteen leading scholars of Chinese culture and society explore the interpersonal consequences of rapid commercialization.


    In the early 1980s, Beijing’s communist leadership advocated decollectivization, foreign trade, and private entrepreneurship to jump-start a stagnant economy, while explicitly rejecting any notion that economic reforms would promote political change. However, by the early 1990s the reforms in the marketplace not only produced double-digit growth but also enabled ordinary citizens to nurture dreams and social networks that challenged official discourse and conventions through millions of daily commercial transactions. Using participant observation, contributors to this book describe and analyze a wide range of these changing consumer practices: luxury housing, white wedding gowns, greeting cards, McDonald’s, discos, premium cigarettes, bowling, and more.

    — 4 days ago
    #deborah davis  #consumer  #market  #capitalism  #china  #revolution 
    "Communism was not defeated by military force but by life, by the human spirit, by conscience."
    Vaclav Havel in The End of the Modern Era, NYT (1992)

    (Source: triciawang)

    — 1 week ago with 2 notes
    #havel  #communism 
    from Wikipedia: Wealth of Networks
Part 1: The Networked Information Economy
Benkler describes the current epoch as a “moment of opportunity” due to the emergence of what he terms the Networked Information Economy (NIE), a “technological-economic feasiblity space”[4] that is the result of the means of producing media becoming more socially accessible. Benkler states that his methodology in the text is to look at social relations using economics, liberal political theory, and focuses on individual actions in nonmarket relations.
Benkler sees communication and information as the most important cultural and economic outputs of advanced economies. He traces the emergence and development of various communications (radio, newspapers, television) through the 19th and 20th centuries as functions of increasingly centralized control due to the high cost factor of production, and believes that media was thus produced on an industrial scale. Benkler’s term for this is the Industrial information economy.
With the emergence of computers, networks, and increasingly affordable media production outlets, Benkler introduces the concept of the NIE, which sees media access as a form of power, and recognizes decentralized individual actions in said media as a result of the removal of physical and economic constraints to the creation of media. To Benkler, this is due to a new feasibility space: lowered costs of access via digital production and radical decentralization rather than centralized messaging (“coordinate coexistence”, 30).
This results in emerging productions of information that use non-proprietry strategies (such as GNU licences and collaborative production formats, like Wikipedia).
[edit]Goods
The forms of cultural productions — music is an example Benkler uses frequently — are either rival or nonrival. Rival products decrease as they are used (e.g. pounds of flour), the consumption of nonrival products (e.g. listening to a song) does not decrease their availability for further consumption.
Static vs. dynamic efficiency: one premise of exclusive rights has always been that only financial incentives can facilitate participation in information production. Benkler argues that in an age where computers reduce the cost of production, that the equation of innovation-to-rights shifts as well.
The declining cost of communication means that in the networked society there are less barriers for individual cultural production that are “meaningful” to other users. Thus, in network economy, “human capacity becomes primary scarce resource”.[5]
[edit]Peer production
To close this section, Benkler argues that the networked environment makes possible a new modality of organizing production: that of commons-based peer production. He discusses the parameters of the commons and gives the example of FLOSS Free/Libre/Open/Source/Software. He discusses shared acts of communication (utterances, reviews, distribution of information) and goods (like server space). Lastly, he draws a contrast to the regulation and rival resource of radio spectrum bandwidth and the sharability of space in a digital commons.
[edit]The economics of peer production
Benkler argues here that the networked society allows for the emergence of non-hierarchical groups that are committed to information production. Open software is one of the ways we can view the emergence of this new form of information production. “Commons-based” peer productions eschews traditional rational choice models offered by economists. Benkler details some of the key components of this new economy based not on financial remuneration but on user-involvement, accreditation, and tools that promote collaboration between individuals.
In order to understand why people engage in production aside from financial incentives, Benkler argues that we can distinguish two types of motivation:
Extrinsic motivation: motivation that comes from outside in the form of financial reward, punishment, etc.
Intrinsic motivation: motivation that derives from within ourselves, such as the pleasure involved in completing a task.
WHY I BLOG THIS: Ojai Benkler’s Networked Information Economy theory argues that networked environments make possible a new modality for organizing non-propietary forms of information production. Building off of his work I argue that a Networked Information Economy also makes possible new practices for mediating the self in informal sites. In networked informal environments, individuals have a greater capacity to initiate dyadic interactions with strangers because of the removal of several constraints. While most scholars have pointed to the disappearance of physical and economic limitations to online interactions, I want to focus our attention on the removal of social constraints. Like other informal spaces (bars, plazas), informal social media sites provide users social distance from their existing hierarchal networks. In the absence of familiar  contacts, a new set of issues emerge around establishing trust.  

    from Wikipedia: Wealth of Networks

    Part 1: The Networked Information Economy

    Benkler describes the current epoch as a “moment of opportunity” due to the emergence of what he terms the Networked Information Economy (NIE), a “technological-economic feasiblity space”[4] that is the result of the means of producing media becoming more socially accessible. Benkler states that his methodology in the text is to look at social relations using economics, liberal political theory, and focuses on individual actions in nonmarket relations.

    Benkler sees communication and information as the most important cultural and economic outputs of advanced economies. He traces the emergence and development of various communications (radio, newspapers, television) through the 19th and 20th centuries as functions of increasingly centralized control due to the high cost factor of production, and believes that media was thus produced on an industrial scale. Benkler’s term for this is the Industrial information economy.

    With the emergence of computers, networks, and increasingly affordable media production outlets, Benkler introduces the concept of the NIE, which sees media access as a form of power, and recognizes decentralized individual actions in said media as a result of the removal of physical and economic constraints to the creation of media. To Benkler, this is due to a new feasibility space: lowered costs of access via digital production and radical decentralization rather than centralized messaging (“coordinate coexistence”, 30).

    This results in emerging productions of information that use non-proprietry strategies (such as GNU licences and collaborative production formats, like Wikipedia).

    [edit]Goods

    The forms of cultural productions — music is an example Benkler uses frequently — are either rival or nonrival. Rival products decrease as they are used (e.g. pounds of flour), the consumption of nonrival products (e.g. listening to a song) does not decrease their availability for further consumption.

    Static vs. dynamic efficiency: one premise of exclusive rights has always been that only financial incentives can facilitate participation in information production. Benkler argues that in an age where computers reduce the cost of production, that the equation of innovation-to-rights shifts as well.

    The declining cost of communication means that in the networked society there are less barriers for individual cultural production that are “meaningful” to other users. Thus, in network economy, “human capacity becomes primary scarce resource”.[5]

    [edit]Peer production

    To close this section, Benkler argues that the networked environment makes possible a new modality of organizing production: that of commons-based peer production. He discusses the parameters of the commons and gives the example of FLOSS Free/Libre/Open/Source/Software. He discusses shared acts of communication (utterances, reviews, distribution of information) and goods (like server space). Lastly, he draws a contrast to the regulation and rival resource of radio spectrum bandwidth and the sharability of space in a digital commons.

    [edit]The economics of peer production

    Benkler argues here that the networked society allows for the emergence of non-hierarchical groups that are committed to information production. Open software is one of the ways we can view the emergence of this new form of information production. “Commons-based” peer productions eschews traditional rational choice models offered by economists. Benkler details some of the key components of this new economy based not on financial remuneration but on user-involvement, accreditation, and tools that promote collaboration between individuals.

    In order to understand why people engage in production aside from financial incentives, Benkler argues that we can distinguish two types of motivation:

    1. Extrinsic motivation: motivation that comes from outside in the form of financial reward, punishment, etc.
    2. Intrinsic motivation: motivation that derives from within ourselves, such as the pleasure involved in completing a task.

    WHY I BLOG THIS: Ojai Benkler’s Networked Information Economy theory argues that networked environments make possible a new modality for organizing non-propietary forms of information production. Building off of his work I argue that a Networked Information Economy also makes possible new practices for mediating the self in informal sites. In networked informal environments, individuals have a greater capacity to initiate dyadic interactions with strangers because of the removal of several constraints. While most scholars have pointed to the disappearance of physical and economic limitations to online interactions, I want to focus our attention on the removal of social constraints. Like other informal spaces (bars, plazas), informal social media sites provide users social distance from their existing hierarchal networks. In the absence of familiar  contacts, a new set of issues emerge around establishing trust.  

    — 1 week ago
    #ojai benkler  #wealth of networks  #strangers  #social  #technology  #information  #NIE  #networked information economy 
    "Rules of conduct impinge upon the individual in two general ways: directly, as obligations, establishing how he is morally constrained to conduct himself: indirectly, as expectations, establishing how others are morally bound to act in regard to him."
    — 2 weeks ago with 1 note
    #goffman  #rules  #morals  #self  #identity 
    "Goffman’s main concern in this essay is the ritualised rules and norms that individuals adhere to in order to maintain a self that is both presentable and negotiable. He indicates that no one operates in society as a unitary or singular self, but instead presents a myriad of different selves which arise in different situations (though they can overlap in some instances)."
    — 2 weeks ago with 1 note
    #goffman  #self  #identity 
    "

    We may well have had the numbers, but we also had our new and invented selves…Outside of its context, the Code is suicidal. The violence committed by and against black men — regardless of class — is not weighed like the violence of other males. In America, the presence of melanin itself is too often a mark of criminality. I like to think that I’ve built myself up into something. I’m a writer. I’ve won some awards. I live in a nice neighborhood in New York. If I shaved more often, I might actually qualify for my local chapter of the black bourgeoisie. But had we gotten into a fight that night, every one of us knew how the police would have seen us, and what they would have done. Violence is wrong. Violence done by black men is more wrong.

    The Code of the Streets, a term popularized by the hip-hop duo Gang Starr and the sociologist Elijah Anderson, is the code of men who have come to feel that they have nothing to lose. Much of the struggle with young black boys and teenagers today lies in getting them to see all that violence endangers. At 13, I could imagine not going to jail, not getting shot, being a responsible father. I could not envision much more. I could name careers and other paths, but I had no real sense that it was possible for me to get there, or how. Somehow I got there. And on arrival, I found myself in the company of others like me: an entire fraternity founded on the need to comprehend the folkways of a world we had never been sure we’d see.

    Some people come up expecting to win. We came up hoping not to lose. Even in victory, the distance between expectation and results is dizzying for both. The old code remains a part of you, and with it comes a particular strain of impostor syndrome. You have learned another language, but your accent betrays you. And there are times when you wonder if the real you is not here among the professionals, but out there in the streets.

    "
    — 2 weeks ago
    #Ta-Nehisi Coates  #the atlantic  #invented self  #new self  #code of the streets 
    "

    “When we have the thick relationships of a small, close community, we may find that our interactions are governed by norms of cooperativeness that are collective rather than dyadic. I behave well toward you because the community will sanction if I do not. In such a case, the norms of cooperativeness maybe sufficiently effective that we do not so readily develop dyadic trust relationships over many things, because those things are government by the communal norms.

    “Incidentally, the claim of Adam Seligman (1997) and Niklas Luhman (1980) that trust is a modern phenomenon may be correct if turned into a claim it arises in relatively large communities in which we must rely on particularized networks and need not arise in small communities in which norms of cooperativeness handle the problems that trust relationships might have handled. The transition from smaller communities to relatively urban communities has proceeded further in many societies than in others, and national differences in vocabulary of trust may correlate with the differential development. ” pg 184-185

    “Although members of a small community might never develop a sense of reciprocal trust such as that in the encapsulated-interest account, they could all or almost all develop trustworthy behavior…” pg 185

    “When a member of such a community enters a broader society without the protection of the sanctions of the communal norm of cooperativeness, this optimism should lead to attempts to cooperate with others and therefore mastery of assessing trustworthiness.”pg 185

    "

    cited in Hardin (2002) Trust and Trustworthiness, from (Cook and Hardin 2000 “Networks, Norms, and Trustworthiness.” In Social Norms, edited by Karl-Dieter Opp and Michael Hechter. New York: Russel Sage Foundation. 

    WHY I POST THIS: Norms of cooperativeness govern interactions in formal social media sites where people already know each other - this is called generalized reciprocity. Chinese youth feel weighed down by communal norms of cooperativeness. They feel that thick guanxi networks obligate them to engage in generalized reciprocity. So they reject these collective norms by exploring alternative sites where they can meet strangers. Meeting a stranger is a dyadic interaction. The trust that evolves out of the dyadic interaction is organic in that there is no threat of a communal sanction if they did not continue the interaction. The norms of cooperativeness are dyadic, not collective. 

    (via notesontrust)

    — 2 weeks ago with 1 note
    "Modernity, though, reversed this association. Without the artificial restrictions imposed by tradition, individual differences would flourish. Individuality in the modern view, Simmel suggests, returned to the notion of uniqueness. “What mattered now,” he says, “was no longer that one was a free individual as such, but that one was a particular and irreplaceable individual."
    — 2 weeks ago with 1 note
    #georg simmel  #unique  #individual 
    From Offbeat China: China’s new graduates’ biggest regrets in college

    College students in China have long been referred to as “the God’s favored” (天之骄子), partly due to their scarcity before. As more and more colleges are set up in China; and as more and more students have the opportunity to pursue higher education, college graduates increasingly lose their advantages, particularly in job markets. To many, the end of college doesn’t only mark the end of formal schooling, but also the end of a significant chapter in their youth that may just as well be the high point of self-esteem. As the graduation season approaches, Renren, China’s Facebook equivalent participated mainly by high school and college students, started a campaign called “Share your biggest regrets in college”, which soon went viral. Below are a sample of pictures shared online. It’s interesting to see that love and travel emerge as major regrets for many.

    • Never been in a relationship
    • Never failed any exams
    • Failed to lose weight
    • Never been drunk

    Failed to pass college English Test band 6

    Failed to build pecs

    Never tried being gay

    Never been in a fight

    Without a clear goal to work for, wasted the last 2 years of college

    If I could do college again, I would

    • Play volleyball diligently
    • Find a girlfriend
    • Learn to sing a few songs
    • Try to be care-free and stupid for once
    • Take my backpack and travel alone, not contacting anyone

    • Never studied in libraries
    • Never sincerely loved a girl
    • Still don’t know what I want after graduation
    • Still cannot fly

    • Never been late to classes
    • Never seen a T-mac game live
    • Never studied hard

    No regrets

    I landed a job, but gave up my dream. Now that I got into a graduate program but lost the job.

    The first time I stepped into college, I met my crush. But 4 years have passed and I still don’t have the courage to tell him.

    If possible, I want to do college all over again.

    Always wanted to travel around but had neither the time nor the money. Such a pity!

    Failed to overcome my weaknesses

    • Never learned to dance
    • Traveled too little. I will work hard to make these dreams come true in the future.

    • Resigned from student union at sophomore year
    • Haven’t worked hard learning English
    • Haven’t participated in more extracurricular activities
    • Never did any part-time jobs

    • Haven’t earned enough money to travel around
    • Failed to loose weight

    Broke up with boyfriend in the end

    Too few girlfriends, too much bullshit

    Being single

    • Never told the tall and hot guy that I liked him
    • Haven’t tried harder and took CPA
    • Should have eaten less and traveled more

    [Pictures from Renren and Baidu BBS]

    7 Responses to “China’s new graduates’ biggest regrets in college”

    1. Odin says:

      They don’t look fat to me. Do these girls have self-esteem issues or are they just being sarcastic?

    2. […] You can see more examples of pictures shared by recent college grads online at Offbeat China. […]

    3. […] Hey, this is something great. Fun and insightful at the same time. On the one hand it shows how similar Chinese students are to all students around the world. On the other hand it does give some insight in the differences. Be sure to see: China’s new graduates’ biggest regrets in college […]

    4. Spell-check? says:

      This annoys me to no end.

      It’s COLLEGE and not collage.

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    — 3 weeks ago with 3 notes
    #china  #chinese  #youth  #regret 
    This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical, and engineering practice and the production of scientific knowledge.Andrew Pickering offers a new approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the extraordinary number of factors—social, technological, conceptual, and natural—that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge. In his view, machines, instruments, facts, theories, conceptual and mathematical structures, disciplined practices, and human beings are in constantly shifting relationships with one another—”mangled” together in unforeseeable ways that are shaped by the contingencies of culture, time, and place.
Situating material as well as human agency in their larger cultural context, Pickering uses case studies to show how this picture of the open, changeable nature of science advances a richer understanding of scientific work both past and present. Pickering examines in detail the building of the bubble chamber in particle physics, the search for the quark, the construction of the quarternion system in mathematics, and the introduction of computer-controlled machine tools in industry. He uses these examples to address the most basic elements of scientific practice—the development of experimental apparatus, the production of facts, the development of theory, and the interrelation of machines and social organization.
(via The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science: Andrew Pickering: 9780226668031: Amazon.com: Books)

    This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical, and engineering practice and the production of scientific knowledge.

    Andrew Pickering offers a new approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the extraordinary number of factors—social, technological, conceptual, and natural—that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge. In his view, machines, instruments, facts, theories, conceptual and mathematical structures, disciplined practices, and human beings are in constantly shifting relationships with one another—”mangled” together in unforeseeable ways that are shaped by the contingencies of culture, time, and place.

    Situating material as well as human agency in their larger cultural context, Pickering uses case studies to show how this picture of the open, changeable nature of science advances a richer understanding of scientific work both past and present. Pickering examines in detail the building of the bubble chamber in particle physics, the search for the quark, the construction of the quarternion system in mathematics, and the introduction of computer-controlled machine tools in industry. He uses these examples to address the most basic elements of scientific practice—the development of experimental apparatus, the production of facts, the development of theory, and the interrelation of machines and social organization.

    (via The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science: Andrew Pickering: 9780226668031: Amazon.com: Books)

    — 3 weeks ago
    #practice  #action  #barry  #technology  #agency 
    "Antiprograms: All the programs of actions of actants that are in conflict with the programs chosen as the point of departure of the analysis; what is a program and what is an antiprogram is relative to the chosen observer"
    — 3 weeks ago
    #antiprogram  #program 

    vin-d-opium:

    Ad Reinhardt, How to Look at Art, Arts & Architecture, January 1947

    (Source: lessadjectivesmoreverbs, via kenyatta)

    — 3 weeks ago with 14359 notes
    #space  #art 
    "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
    — 4 weeks ago with 297 notes
    #shirky principle  #institutions 
    “We Are the Successors of Communism” - Lyrics to the theme song of Communist Party’s Young Pioneers of China
“We Are the Successors of Communism”
This is the song of the Young Pioneers of China, a youth organization run by the Communist Youth League and the Communist Party of China. The Young Pioneers were created in 1949 and were replaced by the Little Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. The Young Pioneers were re-established in 1978 with the aim to unite young people in the study and practice of communism through various activities. Membership is not mandatory, but recommended.
“We Are the Successors of Communism,” or “We Are the Heirs to Communism,” was initially the theme song of the 1961 film Heroic Little Eighth-Routers. The movie told the real-life story of a group of children who helped fight Kuomintang forces on the frontlines during the 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.
Lyrics:
We are the heirs of communism,Inheriting the glorious tradition of the forbearers of the Revolution;[To] love the motherland and the people,[While] the crimson red scarf flutters [or waves] at [our] chest.[We] do not fear hardship, nor the enemy,Studying hard and struggling with resolve;Towards victory, [we] courageously advance,Towards victory, [we] courageously advance,Towards victory, [we] courageously advance;We are the heirs of communism.
We are the heirs of communism,Along the glorious path of the forbearers of the Revolution;[To] love the motherland and the people,“Young Pioneer Members” is our proud name.Ever be prepared, to contribute [i.e. to the cause],[And] to destroy completely the enemy.For [our] ideal, [we] courageously advance,For [our] ideal, [we] courageously advance,For [our] ideal, [we] courageously advance;We are the heirs of communism.

    “We Are the Successors of Communism” - Lyrics to the theme song of Communist Party’s Young Pioneers of China

    “We Are the Successors of Communism”

    This is the song of the Young Pioneers of China, a youth organization run by the Communist Youth League and the Communist Party of China. The Young Pioneers were created in 1949 and were replaced by the Little Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. The Young Pioneers were re-established in 1978 with the aim to unite young people in the study and practice of communism through various activities. Membership is not mandatory, but recommended.

    “We Are the Successors of Communism,” or “We Are the Heirs to Communism,” was initially the theme song of the 1961 film Heroic Little Eighth-Routers. The movie told the real-life story of a group of children who helped fight Kuomintang forces on the frontlines during the 1958 Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.

    Lyrics:

    We are the heirs of communism,
    Inheriting the glorious tradition of the forbearers of the Revolution;
    [To] love the motherland and the people,
    [While] the crimson red scarf flutters [or waves] at [our] chest.
    [We] do not fear hardship, nor the enemy,
    Studying hard and struggling with resolve;
    Towards victory, [we] courageously advance,
    Towards victory, [we] courageously advance,
    Towards victory, [we] courageously advance;
    We are the heirs of communism.

    We are the heirs of communism,
    Along the glorious path of the forbearers of the Revolution;
    [To] love the motherland and the people,
    “Young Pioneer Members” is our proud name.
    Ever be prepared, to contribute [i.e. to the cause],
    [And] to destroy completely the enemy.
    For [our] ideal, [we] courageously advance,
    For [our] ideal, [we] courageously advance,
    For [our] ideal, [we] courageously advance;
    We are the heirs of communism.

    — 4 weeks ago with 1 note
    #young pioneers  #communist  #party  #communist party  #youth  #league  #lyrics  #song