{"id":21406,"date":"2025-10-28T06:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=21406"},"modified":"2025-10-31T06:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:35:50","slug":"against-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/against-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Read: Against Identity by Alexander Douglas \u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/jun\/10\/against-identity-by-alexander-douglas-review-a-superb-critique-of-contemporary-self-obsession\">The Guardian<\/a> describe this as a <em>powerfully strange counterblast to identity fetishism<\/em> and quote <em>What we think of as our own special identity is just a suit of borrowed clothes<\/em> but although I enjoyed parts the references &amp; context in this philosopher&#8217;s book was a bit above my level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read: Against Identity by Alexander Douglas \u2605\u2605\u2605 &#x1f4da;The Guardian describe this as a powerfully strange counterblast to identity fetishism and quote What we think of as our own special identity is just a suit of borrowed clothes but although I enjoyed parts the references &amp; context in this philosopher&#8217;s book was a bit above my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[898],"tags":[2023,1599],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-21406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-book","7":"tag-alexander-douglas","8":"tag-1599","9":"post_format-post-format-status","10":"kind-article","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5zg","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21407,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406\/revisions\/21407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21406"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=21406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}