Pattern Flows: Hybrid Accretive Processes Informing Identity Construction

Abstract
How is it that persons, places, things, and language elements come to have unique identities? In particular, how do notions of the hybrid play into our understanding of identities? In what way does the computer change the way we communicate about and come to understand these entities? How does embodied experience play a part in identity forming? The paper explores concepts surrounding spatial/temporal patterning as a generator of emergent meaning. Identity is here considered as linked to an embodied recombinant gathering of abbreviations of experiental pattern residues. It is a collage-like construction arising out of fragments of associated pattern flows. In this sense identity is always the result of a construction process built of pattern reinforcements and pattern updating. Identity as a product of human understanding draws on an ongoing constructive assembly of processes inherent to meaning-becoming. In this definition there is no such thing as an invariant pattern - only accretive patterns that are similar but different. Here understandings are constantly recombined to address the nature of emergent context. Thus, understanding is always an accretive, hybridising process. An expanded linguistics arises as an ability to fragment, combine and recombine particular pattern instances in the service of evocation and exchange - articulation through intra-action. I am proposing a non-logocentric (or non-word-centred) linguistics, with which we can bring a series of sensual instantiations and media forms into language study, not mimicking the functional nature of words, but exhibiting their own patterned qualities. The complexity that arises out of this re-interpretation is profound yet it is none-the-less necessary to clearly understand an accretive, non-dualistic approach to meaning production.

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