web as performance
how social media rewires our brains for performance/audience/vanity, not connection
andrea and
web as performance
"when the underlying message behind a photo isn’t just “I’m still alive and I want you to pay attention to me right now please,” but “this thing I’m sharing is making me feel really alive, and I’m excited to share it with you because I think it’s worth your attention.” (Nozlee Samadzadeh)
Audience Capture
sari and • 10 cards
I’ve heard we’re all comprised of two selves: the experiencing self and the narrating self. The experiencing self submits always to our circumstances—it feels, needs, desires. The narrating self, meanwhile, is removed—it reflects, rearranges, regales. These modes of being may directly concern a way of living, like being present versus being metacog... See more
"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)
the metrics, outward success, markers of “making it”, numbers, likes, popularity, visibility, praise or criticism or being ignored, awards, highlights, or trajectory that might come from what we make don’t matter much if we aren’t enjoying the process of making what we make.
Why TikTok star Ana Wolfermann is ready to leave influencing for a 9-to-5 job | Fortune
Jane Thierfortune.com
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
The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonate with, and if we’re lucky, some part of the world might too.