The iSelf in the Digital Age

Things we are not able to tell ourselves

Bonny Brooks
Arc Digital
Published in
9 min readFeb 16, 2020

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Performance has been part of life for time out of mind. Whatever any rapper or reality TV star says about “fake” and “real” people, the line between the self that is performing and the self that is simply being is oftentimes difficult to draw. We perform for our peers, at work, for our partners and even — or perhaps especially — for ourselves…

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Bonny Brooks
Arc Digital

Associate Editor at Arc Digital. Former IPS Research Fellow at Library of Congress & AHRC researcher. Writer. Politics geek. http://bonnybrooks.net/