web as performance
how social media rewires our brains for performance/audience/vanity, not connection
andrea and
web as performance
Audience Capture
sari and • 10 cards
Today’s most vital cultural forms are your identity, personality, and image. And in this new cultural paradigm, the artist’s performance of themself is often more important than the art they make. The persona is the message.
The Downward Spiral: Popular Things
Are you not tired?
Of standing for nothing
Of falling for everything
You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity
goodreads.com
How to Fall in Love With a System: Coziness as a Catalyst for Participatory Agency
aw.network
Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture
medium.com
Our Instagram feeds professionalised: the quality of photography improved, the captions were strategically wittier. The relationship to our real lives became more complicated.
"Life in the Instagram bubble requires a constant calibration of how it will be viewed from outside. That need to make life itself aesthetic, to ask, over and over “What will this look like in a square?” exerts a slow, constant pressure of its own." (Jacob Mikanowski)
This is what the internet was always meant to be. A resource for learning. It’s so simple, but we forget.