the ways in which you are known
I have been thinking about entity relationship diagrams, and how I can use these in my artwork. It seems to me that society is continually moving towards dehumanizing relationships. The general public is represented in a variety of different stats, for example, stats on violence, stats on obesity, stats on unemployed. Individuals are represented by titles at work, but more so by employee numbers, students = student numbers. Think about how many ways in which you, yourself are identified...most of them being numbers or codes, your social insurance number, your medical number, your drivers licence number. How many plastic cards do you own? Charge cards, debit banking cards, points cards, library cards. Could an entity relationship diagram of yourself, and all the ways in which you are "known" be an eye opening experience?
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posted by Kim at 11:07 AM
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I am sure someone out there knows more about us than we know about ourselves. I imagine our whole lives are out there somewhere. Heck, we even add to it every time we post on our blogs. Our every move on the Internet is captured by our ISP, the info we have to give when we register on-line for something. The only consolation is that if someone is tracking us they are also tracking about 1 billion other people so we are still insignificant in the whole scheme of things.
Yes, good point. We are insignificant, that is exactly what I am getting at. Personal relationships have been replaced with masses and masses of numbers...of information. Is any of it useful to anyone?
I sort of see where you are going with this. However, I'm not sure I am in total agreement. I think it depends on the definition of a personal relationship. Dawn and I have a personal relationship that I don't believe to be insignificant. Heck, I even have a personal relationship with you and Kevin.
Personal relationships between entities such as businesses, banks, on-line forums, government, and statistical companies, etc., are more toward the non-personal relationships. Some banks still do have a bit of personality to them but not all. To business you are just a number with hopefully some money to give them. Stats? I don't trust polls and statistics because they are usually skewed toward the point they want to make.
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