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The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age
the conflation of personal worth and market value.
Anna Wiener • Portrait of the Artist as an Office Drone
Online reward mechanisms beg to substitute for offline ones, and then overtake them. This is why everyone tries to look so hot and well-traveled on Instagram; this is why everyone seems so smug and triumphant on Facebook; this is why, on Twitter, making a righteous political statement has come to seem, for many people, like a political good in
... See moreJia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
I had spent so long performing myself online that without social media, I wasn’t sure how to measure my own existence. What is a life unposted? What are thoughts that no one else can hear? Who am I, if not a series of updates and images, strategically packaged for consumption?