About Me — Lone Brinkmann
One of my professors once said: “You can read fiction as philosophy, and philosophy as fiction.”
Each of my mornings typically begins with an outdoor walk and reading fiction or philosophy. As a child of nature, with my philosophical heart and creative academic mind, I have always been drawn to Kierkegaard’s existential philosophy and its current-day applications through new media.
Publishing my first textbook in 2016 titled “#Kirkegaard and Performative Narratology on Social Media,” I developed a unique how-to approach regarding Kirkegaard’s theories with respect to today’s technology. Following this publication, I developed online material for teaching platforms used in Danish high schools.
Much of my academic work compares personal storytelling in the past versus the often self-promoting digital narratives created through social media today, highlighting the consequences of ‘digital footprints.’ Each individual ‘footprint’ consists of the culmination of likes, comments, posts, and retweets (etc.) that are tied to our names in perpetuity, creating our virtual identities.
