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Post-Authentic Sincerity
Identitarianism is mirrored in—would not be possible without—the widespread preoccupation with authentic selves. In the future we may be able to look back at toxic wantrepreneurship, white entitlement, and identity politics both “left” and ethnonationalist as being underwritten by the same philosophical blunder.
subpixel space • After Authenticity
I am also worrying about my own diversity - about having the best, most alive parts of myself paved over by a ruthless logic of use. …it is also a worry that I will be stripped of my own unusable parts, my own mystery, and my own depths.
[How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell, p183]
Mainstream culture and commodity goods present a problem for people who believe in authenticity.
“reactionary distancing—aestheticizing, ironizing.” Viewing the junk products of pop culture “ironically or anthropologically….from internally afar” allowed hipsters to see them as something not part of themselves
Ironic consumption of commodities is one ... See more
“reactionary distancing—aestheticizing, ironizing.” Viewing the junk products of pop culture “ironically or anthropologically….from internally afar” allowed hipsters to see them as something not part of themselves
Ironic consumption of commodities is one ... See more