When dealing with issues of identity in the digital realm, we spend most of our time filling up social networking pages with info about who we are with specific points of interest and photographs in an attempt to create a specific identity, however, it is in this quest for identity that we lose it. As we fill up databases with info about who we are, we essentially give over ourselves. We spend so much time curating our own identities, that in the end, it is all we have. Baudrillard says in reference to why he doesn’t take photos of human subjects:
“…but in the end it’s always the subject that vanishes behind the lens. But this can be transposed elsewhere. Perhaps the species, by inventing a multiplicity of virtual connections, is finding a way of losing itself in the immensity of the networks. In the technical universe, the real actor is not the one you think he is. The rules of the game are doubtless not what you think they are either.”
–Paroxysm, Interviews with Phillippe Petit