Post-Luxury Status Symbol #1: Connected Privacy
writing about the luxury of being offline requires being extremely online. The status symbol of disconnection can only be signaled through connection. But perhaps that’s the point: the real flex is navigating the network with enough grace that no one can tell you’re performing at all.
Eugene Healey • Post-Luxury Status Symbol #1: Connected Privacy
Eugene, connected privacy
So the status signal isn’t actually in being offline. It’s in having the capital - social, economic, cultural - to be selectively online in ways that benefit you without feeding the machine more than necessary.
Eugene Healey • Post-Luxury Status Symbol #1: Connected Privacy
Eugene Healey—Connected Privacy
Kyle Chayka has observed that having no followers has become its own form of status. It’s here we observe the curdling of resistance into luxury: as invisibility becomes desirable, it becomes a marker of privilege. Those who can afford to opt out, who have offline networks robust enough to sustain them, whose careers don’t depend on algorithmic... See more
Post-Luxury Status Symbol #1: Connected Privacy
Eugene Healey