Giving up Your Data
Our reality is blurred + distributed. Our social relations are ephemeral + transitory. Our access to information is omnipresent + global. We are documentarians of our lives, we have all become autobiographers in our own personal database narrative… In the 21st century, we are all essentially authors of personal database narratives, expanding each and every moment, to be uploaded, broadcast, shared, distributed, and archived via the network… In the construction of personal narrative, it is far more interesting to give up our data, as a super-participant, then to let it fly through the ether… The systems of eavesdropping are so ubiquitous, so pervasive, so invasive in our everyday lives that we may as well just agree to give up our data and go quietly into that good night…