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Bodies and selves: Reflections on visual coding and identity by Dior Thiam.

By Dior Thiam Nov 3, 2021 I often wonder where I am. Not in the sense of being lost in a city or any mappable place for that matter, but rather in the sense of not knowing where I exist, where this thing that I think of when I say I manifests, and how. Where I am and where I am not. Bodies do not act and cannot be perceived in a neutral space. I is not my hair. I is not my skin. I is not my minimal IDentity. Humans have been conceptualizing, debating and inventing around the nature of I for centuries. In different ways, many have expressed that there is a soul or a spirit within the earthbound

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