Simulated Selves: The Undoing of Personal Identity in the Modern World

ISBN-13: 9781350298163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 360 str.

Andrew Spira

Spis treści

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Narrated Self: Time and the Dramatisation of Historical Agency 3. The Publication of the Self: The Sublimation of Personal Identity in Publicity and Art Appreciation 4. The Disintegration of the Self: The Origins of Abstraction and the De-objectification of the World 5. The Democratisation of the Self: The Integration of Creative Endeavour into the Fabric of Daily Life and the Death of Art 6. The Trans-personalisation of the Self: The Material Culture of Communication and the Communalisation of Identity 7. The Psychological Self: The Pathology of Art and Cinematographic Modes of Self-Remembering 8. The Linguistic Self: The De-verberation of the Self and the End of Meaning Bibliography Index