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Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
With the blurring of the boundaries between public and private life—evidenced in part by the rise of a construct like Peters’s CEO of Me, Inc.—one is no longer compelled to manage the heart only in the context of the corporate workplace. Or rather, more accurately, the corporate workplace is interiorized: one takes the workplace with one everywhere
... See moreMicki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
In the place of a social safety net, Americans have been offered row upon row of self-help books to boost their spirits and keep them afloat in uncharted economic and social waters.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
Maintaining the fiction of the autonomous self, a laborious fiction that is ultimately unsustainable, has become hard work.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
have something. Katya, a petite Russian blonde with a Smurfette voice and the energy of a Pomeranian puppy, was at the front door in ten minutes with a Xanax and a worried look on her face. “Do not come in,” I warned her. “He’ll probably kill you.” Not that she didn’t entirely deserve it, of course. Or so I thought at the time. I gave Mystery the p
... See moreNeil Strauss • The Game
One might reasonably expect that new modes of being, new individual identities, and new conceptions of selfhood would abound. And such does seem to be the case.