Hearts in Flux – Cartographies of the Self in an Age of Dissolution
Where does a body begin, where does it end? In the liminal spaces between motion and stillness, we oscillate—not merely subjects in a world, but data points, echoes, overlapping layers of memory and projection. The present unfolds as an infinite stream of possibilities, yet these possibilities remain ambivalent: liberating and overwhelming at once.
We take less than we give. Our traces remain—embedded in networks, archives, in the bodies of others. But what does it mean when our bodies are no longer just flesh, but interfaces, porous thresholds between the organic and the digital? Hearts in Flux—a name for what we have already become: fluid, dissolving, continuously re-emerging. Modernity was a project of separation. Private and public. Physical and intellectual. Analog and digital. Yet these boundaries were always unstable, always constructed. Our thoughts have never belonged to us alone—they exist only in relation to others, transmitted, filtered, recontextualized. Consciousness is a network, in which the self is no longer a fixed entity, but an assemblage in flux.
Perhaps we must stop centering the singularity of the self. Perhaps loss is not loss, but transformation. Perhaps we are not individual beings, but sediments of an overlapping history, fragments of a shared syntax.
There is no final arrival. Only movement. A becoming that resists any definitive name.
Hearts in Flux. Because life is not an identity. It is a becoming.
