Yancey Strickler argues that the way we see our self influences what we perceive as valuable - a concept he further expands through Metalabel and his idea of post-individualism. 

Today, self-creation is no longer something some of us can do to set ourselves apart from the people we see as the masses, the crowd, or ‘la foule.’ Instead, it has become something that all of us ‘must’ do in order to maintain our financial and social position in a culture that sees reality as up for grabs, to garner the attention central to so

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TALKING IDENTITY Until the middle of the twentieth century, no one who was asked about a person’s identity would have mentioned race, sex, class, nationality, region, or religion. When George Eliot writes in Middlemarch that Rosamond “was almost losing the sense of her identity,” it’s because Rosamond is faced with profoundly new experiences when

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