Choosing Your First-Person Pronoun
What are you? You may, in the past, have asked yourself who you are. This is a different question. I want to know what you are. Any answer you give to that question starts with a pronoun. Are you sure you're using the right one?
Choosing Your First-Person Pronoun
Part Four: Life Itself
Part Four: Life Itself
In our next pronoun-hacking experiment, what happens if, instead of an "I", or an "it", you are "life"?
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Choosing Your First-Person Pronoun
Part Three: In Praise of Dissociation
Part Three: In Praise of Dissociation
Using "it" as a first-person pronoun creates distance between you and the system of the self. That kind of separation is often problematized as "dissociation". Dissociation, however, is a big step up from missociation.
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Choosing Your First-Person Pronoun
Part Two: Look At That Thing Go!
Part Two: Look At That Thing Go!
In this first in our series of first-person pronoun-hacking experiments, we find out what happens when you replace "I" with "it".
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Choosing Your First-Person Pronoun
Part One: From Non-Binary to Non-Dual
Part One: From Non-Binary to Non-Dual
What are you? You may, in the past, have asked yourself who you are. This is a different question. I want to know what you are. Any answer you give to that question starts with a pronoun. Are you sure you're using the right one?
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