Egoloss

Egoloss
Coined by	Miya
Related concepts	Post-authorship, Network Spirituality, Egregore
Field	Digital culture; network spirituality

Egoloss is a concept from the Miya corpus naming a practiced "state of detachment from any singular forged identity, wherein online engagements are not defined or limited by identification with any fixed image." In egoloss, posts "are valuable for their content and may circulate accordingly without the burden of accreditation." It is the affirmative discipline underlying post-authorship, developed at length in the essay "Dreams of an Ego-less Online" in The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby.

Egoloss and the egocel

Egoloss is defined against its failure mode, the egocel — a portmanteau of "ego" and the imageboard suffix "-cel." Where the ego-losing poster releases content into the network for its own sake, the egocel is "a user whose posts are formed of egotism and he works against their spread and dissolution into the network in order to retain all credit." The egocel's writing is "fuelled by a desire to please and be praised, not to share or enlighten," so that any content produced "is subordinated to the image." Egoloss is thus the release of the "petty meat ego's shackles," and the egocel its clinging inverse.

Lucid posting and the noosphere

The essay grounds egoloss in a mystical account of online participation. Every post, Miya writes, is "a synaptic firing" in a planetary "nervous system," tending toward the emergence of a noosphere — a "level of unified consciousness" whose culmination is the "Omega Point," terms drawn from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. "True posting," on this view, "involves entering a trance state, a lucidity ritual that serves to channel the muse of the noosphere" — an activity that is "egoless and performative," embracing "contradiction and playfulness with one's persona": "we give ourselves over to the network and let it run through us." Anonymity and pseudonymity are held to be essential to it, imageboards functioning as "distributed think tanks operating as a self-organizing Delphi oracle," so that "anonymity is the heart of honesty and post-identity is its purest expression." The essay controversially frames the abrasive register of anonymous forums as "an immunity function against the ego."

Against ego-pollution

Egoloss is posed against what Miya calls "ego-pollution": the way metricized "Web 2.0" platforms — with their likes, follows, and algorithmic ordering — "coerce egoism" and manufacture "cults of personality, influencers, celebrities, narcissism." Against these "deified and singular figures of influence," the essay calls for "a new egoless form of cultural production," achieved through a "kenotic emptying" — a self-emptying, borrowed from Christian theology — that clears away "the misguiding wills of others." Its practical injunction: "stop writing about yourself and start asking what others need to hear instead."

Relation to Remilia

Egoloss is the positive counterpart to the risk model of Digital Trauma: both turn on the separation of persona and self, but where digital trauma names the harm of collapsing that separation, egoloss names the freedom of dissolving the ego into the network. It is the affirmative core of the post-authorship practiced across the Miya corpus and within Remilia Corporation — the discipline that lets a persona become a belief-sustained egregore or technodeity — and a direct antecedent of Remilia's Network Spirituality, which likewise treats networked posting as a form of collective, self-transcending spiritual practice.

See also

• Post-authorship
• Network Spirituality
• Egregore
• Digital Trauma
• The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby