World Wide Soul: Post-Identity and Network Spirituality
Electronic workshops in computing January 1, 2024 Ana Bandeira
Online posting can be understood as a machinic beyond in which networks amplify the proliferating potential of memetic egregores—collective thought-forms. Posting like a machine means relinquishing a monolithic identity to build multiple new ones, as if trained by the collective intelligence of online rings through swarms of collective posting. This practice questions traditional copyright frameworks while celebrating appropriation, spontaneous collaboration, post-authorship, and performative identity. Encapsulating concerns such as extinction, love, and collapse, these communing rituals embody the noosphere—a collective consciousness or interconnected network of minds. Network spirituality thus proposes new modes of being within emerging conditions of planetary existence.