{"id":2199,"date":"2018-11-15T21:01:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2018-11-15T21:33:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:33:47","slug":"week-4-el30-graphs-and-decentering-the-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/week-4-el30-graphs-and-decentering-the-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4 EL30: Graphs and Decentering the Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/indras-net.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2209 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/indras-net.png\" alt=\"Indra's Net\" width=\"197\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/indras-net.png 460w, https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/indras-net-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.\u201d\u00a0\u2015\u00a0<span class=\"authorOrTitle\">Friedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am still reading the articles for<a href=\"https:\/\/el30.mooc.ca\/cgi-bin\/page.cgi?module=8\"> our class, eLearning 3.0<\/a> and am not quite sure the value of thinking of my self as a decentered graph. Our assignment is:<\/p>\n<p>Create an Identity Graph:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are expanding on the marketing definition of an identity graph. It can be anything you like, but with one stipulation: your graph\u00a0<em>should not<\/em>\u00a0contain a self-referential node titled \u2018me\u2019 or \u2018self\u2019 or anything similar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Think of this graph as you defining\u00a0<em>your<\/em>\u00a0identity, not what some advertiser, recruiter or other third party might want you to define.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t worry about creating the\u00a0<em>whole<\/em>\u00a0identity graph &#8211; focusing on a single facet will be sufficient. And don&#8217;t post anything you&#8217;re not comfortable with sharing. It doesn&#8217;t have to be a\u00a0<em>real<\/em>\u00a0identity graph, just an identity graph, however you conceive it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I took my first stab at this what-was-my-original-face-before-I-was-born-type exercise and thought about how much of my thinking about my identity depends so much on what I do. The graph captures what I do but does not capture my relationships with other people, the depth of my social media relationships, the magazines and books that I read, philosophers, religions, my favorite beers, food, cooking, sports, or travel &#8211; all of which go into who I am. I am sure Google knows this already.<\/p>\n<p>What the graph does capture is the interconnectedness of the roles &#8211; the over-lap in all the things I do and how dependent they all are on coffee.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Europeans that I have met are insulted by this idea: that what we do for a living has much to do with who we are essentially as people. Sometimes the work that people do have little to do with aspirations and more to do with luck or other circumstances. Many Americans define themselves by work. It is a very Puritanical\/Capitalist thing to do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Graph-of-Cain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2203\" src=\"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Graph-of-Cain.jpg\" alt=\"Image of a concept map that defines Geoff Cain by what he does\" width=\"2758\" height=\"2293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Graph-of-Cain.jpg 2758w, https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Graph-of-Cain-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Graph-of-Cain-768x639.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Graph-of-Cain-1024x851.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2758px) 100vw, 2758px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the Joke via Kurt Vonnegut:<br \/>\n\u201cTo be is to do\u201d\u2014Socrates.<br \/>\n\u201cTo do is to be\u201d\u2014Jean-Paul Sartre.<br \/>\n\u201cDo be do be do\u201d\u2014Frank Sinatra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. 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