Articles for further exploration of this subject, although I’m still not certain what value an open-source identity would have (but I intuit that there is one!):
- Digital Identity: “Identifiers are the key used by the parties to an identification relationship to agree on the entity being represented.” {see also: networked identity in that same article}
- Juristic person: “an artificial entity through which the law allows a group of natural persons to act as if it were a single composite individual for certain purposes, or in some jurisdictions, for a single person to have a separate legal personality other than their own”
- Identity management: ” the management of the identity life cycle of entities (subjects or objects) during which: (1) the identity is established… (2) the identity is described… (3) the identity is destroyed.”
What does all this mean? Where does it all point? What does it allow us to do that we’re not doing now?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_management
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work
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What I came here to ask about was Tulpas. One of your best articles was on this subject and the Juristic Person definitely relates. It seems to me that a lot of what you’re talking about lately relates too.
Holy shit! Tulpas egregores juristic persons Grant Morrison etc etc
See also Dutch East India Company’s Role in American Revolution
I may be behind the curve here but I’m thinking your recent stuff on librarianship and performance is pretty interesting.
Performance librarians…
I mean John Hegley’s a performance poet but a performance librarian must be one step beyond, right?
Performance Reference Librarians
Reference Point Performance Referees & Librarianship