Selfies without the self
Selfies are not about self-expression but advertising availability to the network
Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
Self-expression is the internalization of social authority, not the externalization of a "true identity"
Preemptive personalization
Technology aspires to do the work of having a self for us
Liquid authenticity
The demand to be "real" comes from capital, not from within
The Silence of the Masses Could Be Social Media
What Baudrillard's concept of the silent masses reveals about obligatory social-media use
No Life Stories
Big Data hopes to liberate us from the work of self-construction and justify mass surveillance in the process
Free to Choose A or B
Facebook's mood-manipulation experiment confirms its commitment to harvesting profitable data from our choices, conscious or not
“Sharing” Economy and Self-Exploitation
All capital, all the time
The “Sharing” Economy
A review of What's Mine Is Yours and other ideas about the sharing economy scam
Vinyl re-enchantment
I can't separate buying records from enjoying them
“Surveillant anxiety” and exceptional conformity
Potential problems with a political strategy of desubjectivation
Me Meme
Virality and the end of self-expression
Artistic autonomy and subsumption
The consolation prize for subsumed subjectivity is that we get to feel like artists.
Beyond Avant-Garde
If we are born artists, we have to learn to be spectators
Robots on an Escalator
Ideas inspired by Elisa Gabbert's The Self Unstable
Games of Truth
Social media serve as a staging ground for wars of authenticity