Flow is an ambiguous concept due to its connective nature. Flow exists through agency, networking, media, identity, and many more keywords; flow exists as the underlying connections between different conceptual entities (i.e. keywords for media studies.) The author of the essay writes flow as a “circulation of disconnected images and sounds that exemplify the post modern condition,” that being capital, the ‘flow’ of personal capital, that being personal data, information, etc. from, to, and through different nodes. Now, this is a profound statement, as spoken about during class, that capital is flowing constantly and a lot of the time, we as people are unaware of this flow. Me, as a person, “I”, exist as a lens for the keyword flow. Things, such as media entities (information, notifications, messages, ads, etc.) are moving to and from me, however things like waves, and possibly even thoughts are moving to, and to an extent, through me. Now I wonder, if “thoughts” fit through this category of flow? Are thoughts materialistic, or real, in some sense?-I think so, and therefore I believe people’s thoughts/thinking to be a form of flow within an identity perspective.
