Megan Jean HarlowConstructs Herself

With the AssistanceOf Wander Kips

What is Second Life?

Identity and Performance

Frontier Performances

National Identity

History

Entertainment

Virtual Frontier

Technology Changes the stages where identity

performancestake place

s

Identity is constantly constructed

How can we construct identity and sense of self in

an empowering way?

Rhetoric as Energia

Rhetoric as Energia

Nomadic Perspective

Antithesis (an-TIH-theh-sis): Figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, usually through parallel structure; a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences.

Sophist Rhetorical Histories

Parataxis – Placing of clauses etc. one after another, withoutWords to indiciate co-ordiantion or subordination

isremember as

nothing nothingdoes

Articulate a sense of place - A Story of historythat denies a straight line of progress

Weaving a narrative of antithetical events

Parataxis

Virtual/Real

Presence/Absence

Self

Home

City

Construction Sites

Self-AvatarThe avatar created is not only the

double of an idealized self, but rather can be understood as a vehicle that partially expresses the desire of its

user (Apate 2008).

Outfitting The Self

Uncanny

Creating Multiple Selves

“home is a site where oppressed and

disenfranchised people restore their

spirits, and continue the

process of self-recovery”

(hooks 2006, p. 98)

Construction Site # 2 – The Home

Absolute Hospitality

Connect past - Siberia

Native American Veterans Virtual Home

Final Construction

Site

Second Life&

Cultural Memory

“Networked consciousness--a place where doubles (a la Freud's notion of the uncanny and reflection find themselves suddenly confronted with what Franz Fanon called "displacement," and where on-line psychologist Sherry Turkle, calls the "Second Self" acts as an identity workshop--the "real" reflected in the myriads possibilities generated on-line” – Paul Miller

Text Being Analyzed

Second Life

Process of creating myself within Second Life

My experiences