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The default assumption tends to be that it is politically important to designate everyone as beautiful, that it is a meaningful project to make sure that everyone can become, and feel, increasingly beautiful. We have hardly tried to imagine what it might look like if our culture could do the opposite—de-escalate the situation, make beauty matter le... See more
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino on the Internet’s Endless Stage | Crooked Media
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
George Packer in 2014, in a New Yorker piece detailing Amazon’s takeover of the book industry. With this data,
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
What drew me so desperately to Haraway at twenty, eager to find a way of being in the world that I could commit to, could follow towards something I wanted that I hadn’t yet (then, or maybe even now) learned to articulate, was her additive lens: her commitment to both/AND, to celebrating a purposeful, pleasurably rigorous way of being. Haraway drea... See more
As I age, the more convinced I am that the concept of “normal” is the most toxic thing in our culture.