You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity Moeller Hans-Georg
You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity Moeller Hans-Georg More and more, we present ourselves and encounter others through profiles. As we observe how others observe us, we calibrate our…
Specifikacia You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity Moeller Hans-Georg
You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity Moeller Hans-Georg
More and more, we present ourselves and encounter others through profiles. As we observe how others observe us, we calibrate our self-presentation accordingly. A profile shows us not as we are seen directly but how we are perceived by a broader public.
But all too often critics simply denounce this alleged superficiality in defense of some supposedly pure ideal of authentic or sincere expression.This book argues that the profile marks an epochal shift in our concept of identity and demonstrates why that matters. Profile-based identity is evident everywhere from pop culture to politics, marketing to morality. You and Your Profile blends social theory, philosophy, and cultural critique to unfold an exploration of the way we have come to experience the world.
Instead of polemicizing against the profile, Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D'Ambrosio outline how it works, how we