ABSTRACT This article brings together philosophical anthropologist Hemuth Plessner’s views on identities with geographer Anssi Paasi’s concepts of border and boundary. Plessner viewed personal identity as a kind of ‘void’ able to coordinate internal and external personal relations in such a way that an imagined unity unfolds. This happens through a process of individuation understood as both at once persisting as and becoming that imagined unity. It is shown here that this perspective can be transferred to the collective level by referring to the work of Paasi who demonstrates that the processes of institutionalizing social boundaries and spatial borders are the critical moments in the formation of territorial collective identities. These two concepts are particularly useful for understanding the historical dynamics by which social and spatial orders reproduce and change in relation to social, political and technological alterations. This theoretical discussion is developed here by examining ethnographic and digital data relating to the neighbourhoods of Siena’s historic city centre, the contrade, and the urban festival, the Palio di Siena, in which they constitute the main protagonists. This case shows that the neighbourhoods engage with the internet in order to maintain control over their collective identities vis-a-vis potentially global audiences.

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领土集体身份和互联网。锡耶纳街区的个性化过程

摘要 本文将哲学人类学家 Hemuth Plessner 关于身份的观点与地理学家 Anssi Paasi 的边界和边界概念结合起来。普莱斯纳将个人身份视为一种“空虚”，能够以一种想象的统一展开的方式协调内部和外部的个人关系。这是通过一个个体化的过程发生的，这个过程被理解为既持续存在又成为想象的统一体。这里表明，这种观点可以通过参考 Paasi 的工作转移到集体层面，他证明社会边界和空间边界制度化的过程是领土集体身份形成的关键时刻。这两个概念对于理解与社会、政治和技术变革相关的社会和空间秩序复制和变化的历史动态特别有用。这个理论讨论是通过检查与锡耶纳历史悠久的市中心街区、贸易区和城市节庆活动相关的人种学和数字数据而展开的，在这些节庆活动中，他们是主要的主角。这个案例表明，社区与互联网互动是为了保持对潜在全球受众的集体身份的控制。这个理论讨论是通过检查与锡耶纳历史悠久的市中心街区、贸易区和城市节庆活动相关的人种学和数字数据而展开的，在这些节庆活动中，他们是主要的主角。这个案例表明，社区与互联网互动是为了保持对潜在全球受众的集体身份的控制。这个理论讨论是通过检查与锡耶纳历史悠久的市中心街区、贸易区和城市节庆活动相关的人种学和数字数据而展开的，在这些节庆活动中，他们是主要的主角。这个案例表明，社区与互联网互动是为了保持对潜在全球受众的集体身份的控制。