on identity, trajectory, sedentarism and nomadism

Individual identity, until now mainly linked to the place where one is born, to the native land, is progressively changing to the idea of trajectory. One starts being one’s trajectory.

 

 

“The nature of being sedentary and nomadic has changed. […] Sedentary people are at home wherever they go. With their cell phones or laptops, [they are] as comfortable in an elevator or on a plane as in a high-speed train. This is the sedentary person. The nomad, on the other hand, is someone who is never at home, anywhere. ”

Paul Virilio

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