Abstract
This chapter addresses a number of points related to mobility, mobile connectivity, and identity through, at first, consideration of some examples of early adopters of mobile telephony such as the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community as among the settings which establish norms for mobile, portable communication and relationality. Manuel Castells’ network morphology is discussed as a constitutive factor in the performativity of identities that are always social and relational, from the perspective of mobility and mobile devices that facilitate an always-connectedness of subjects moving through private and public space. The chapter addresses three important factors of mobile subjectivity, which emerge in a contemporary morphology of the mobile network of relationality, as different approaches to subjectivity that can be found in thinking about mobile cultures (1) as assemblages, (2) through mobility conceptualization, and (3) through the ways in which mobility disrupts received understandings of public and private, thereby presenting new signposts for the conceptualization and constitution of identity as performative in relation to others.
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