Drawing on how Wendy Brown defines neoliberalism in this interview, as reducing people to market actors and inciting them to turn every aspect of one’s life into something marketable, we can see this process of self-making as self-neoliberalization: making an account of one's life to try to turn as much of it as possible into various forms of "human capital."īy housing so much personal data, networks not only foreground the contingency of identity (how we act differently in different contexts how we seem different when our data is filtered in different ways, or when it is compared with other users exhibiting similar behavior patterns) but also make it plain that all the archived information about us feed directly into our efforts to capitalize on our sociality-to turn our social connections and everyday personal behavior into marketable assets. If we are thought to just have a self, its purpose is not questioned when the self is a process, the question arises of what the purpose of that process is.
But whereas things simply seem to be, processes are understood to have goals. Identity is understood less as a concrete thing and more as a process.
#Antonym of ephemeral archive#
Instead identity is an open construction site that other people are invited to tour, a work in progress that will never be completed, as the archive can house more and more data. (See Nathan Jurgenson on the idea of the "Facebook eye" here.) As the data accumulates, it begins to make identity appear incremental instead of given all at once, born into us like a soul, dictating our personality from some permanent, essential inner core. Ephemerality as a strategy for generating authenticity. The untenability of old notions of authenticity becomes more apparent the more one is entrenched in mediated social networks that archive data about a user. Because social media turn so much experience into representations, social media eradicate the possibility of spontaneity (another legacy notion of what is authentic), as we plan for the mediation of what we are doing even as we are doing it. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.What happens when what is archived no longer seems to qualify as part of what is authentic about you? The allure of ephemerality intensifies.ġ. I don’t paint from emotion or feeling, which I think are both very ephemeral, for me, painting is much more about kind of trying to bring forth what is, I think, the universal truth. Volatility characterizes such real markets and much of the pre-crisis market-making capacity among dealers was ephemeral.īeing liked can only be ephemeral.
To be clear, more expensive liquidity is a price well worth paying for making the core of the system more robust, removing public subsidies is absolutely necessary for real markets to exist.
What you see through your heart is everlasting and eternal.
What you see with your eyes are transient and ephemeral, That which is fleeting is viewed as in the act of passing swiftly by, and that which is fugitive (Latin fugio, flee) as eluding attempts to detain it that which is evanescent (Latin evanesco, from e, out, and vanus, empty, vain) as in the act of vanishing even while we gaze, as the hues of the sunset.Ībiding, enduring, eternal, everlasting, immortal, imperishable, lasting, permanent, perpetual, persistent, undying, unfadingīrief, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, flying, fugitive, momentary, passing, short, temporary, transient, transitory Ephemeral (Greek epi, on, and hemera, day) literally lasting but for a day, often marks more strongly than transient exceeding brevity of duration it agrees with transitory in denoting that its object is destined to pass away, but is stronger, as denoting not only its certain but its speedy extinction thus that which is ephemeral is looked upon as at once slight and perishable, and the word carries often a suggestion of contempt man's life is transitory, a butterfly's existence is ephemeral with no solid qualities or worthy achievements a pretender may sometimes gain an ephemeral popularity. A thing is transient which in fact is not lasting a thing is transitory which by its very nature must soon pass away a thing is temporary (Latin tempus, time) which is intended to last or be made use of but a little while as, a transient joy this transitory life a temporary chairman. Transient and transitory are both derived from the same original source (Latin trans, over, and eo, go), denoting that which quickly passes or is passing away, but there is between them a fine shade of difference.
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