In-life Safety

There are three very important questions in life:

1. Who am I?

This is a common one, and with good reason. It's actually an amalgamation of a lot of important issues around identity politics and probably more accurately phrased as "What makes me, me?"

2. What am I doing?

Obviously I mean this in the broad sense of "What am I doing with my life?" Generally, non-specific and rhetorical questions like "Where is this going?" or "What does it all mean?" or "Is this really my life?" are in the same vein as this question which is about direction, vocation, calling, and has to do with a human need for a sense of purpose - even purpose without reason - which leads me to the next question...

3. Why?

The big one, and probably the easiest to answer because it's completely subjective. Also because there is no wrong answer to this question. But mostly because you can effectively deflect this question with the negative retort "Why not?" To really consider it, though, is an important exercise; and a thoughtful response will take into account the process of answering the preceding questions.

In an act of childish soul-searching (I know I left it here somewhere), I will, over the next few weeks, try to answer these questions on this blog. I'm going to do this for the following reasons:

a) The questions will give me a framework to interrogate the ways in which I construct myself

b) The heterotopic social space of the internet is engaged with the construction of self through a hybrid of performance and archiving, which should be a fun thing to explore as I blog; and,

c) I need a long-term blog project (bloject? anyone?) to keep me interested in writing here while I focus most of my composition impetus elsewhere.

So, stay tuned/subscribed/following or whatever, and get to know the material marc cameron via the interweb. Again. Still. Something....