The Philosophy of Digital Identity is a sharp, accessible, and darkly funny exploration of selfhood in the age of social media. It examines how online life transforms the ordinary human need to be seen into something measurable, searchable, editable, and endlessly performable. Profiles become tiny museums. Likes become emotional verdicts. Authenticity becomes a style. Privacy becomes suspicious. The body becomes adjustable. Even grief, friendship, virtue, and happiness acquire interfaces.
Drawing on thinkers such as Socrates, Hegel, Goffman, Foucault, Debord, Baudrillard, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others, this book explains major philosophical ideas in plain language and shows how they appear in everyday digital life. No prior knowledge of philosophy is required. Only a working familiarity with notifications, awkward self-presentation, and the faint suspicion that the internet has made being a person unnecessarily administrative.
This is not a call to abandon social media and live in a forest, although the forest has made a strong case. Instead, it asks how we might live more reflectively online: how to seek recognition without becoming dependent on metrics, how to appear without becoming only appearance, how to share without surrendering privacy, and how to remain more than what can be seen.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. The Philosophy of Digital Identity is a sharp, accessible, and darkly funny exploration of selfhood in the age of social media. It examines how online life transforms the ordinary human need to be seen into something measurable, searchable, editable, and endlessly performable. Profiles become tiny museums. Likes become emotional verdicts. Authenticity becomes a style. Privacy becomes suspicious. The body becomes adjustable. Even grief, friendship, virtue, and happiness acquire interfaces. Drawing on thinkers such as Socrates, Hegel, Goffman, Foucault, Debord, Baudrillard, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others, this book explains major philosophical ideas in plain language and shows how they appear in everyday digital life. No prior knowledge of philosophy is required. Only a working familiarity with notifications, awkward self-presentation, and the faint suspicion that the internet has made being a person unnecessarily administrative. This is not a call to abandon social media and live in a forest, although the forest has made a strong case. Instead, it asks how we might live more reflectively online: how to seek recognition without becoming dependent on metrics, how to appear without becoming only appearance, how to share without surrendering privacy, and how to remain more than what can be seen. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798185504284
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. The Philosophy of Digital Identity is a sharp, accessible, and darkly funny exploration of selfhood in the age of social media. It examines how online life transforms the ordinary human need to be seen into something measurable, searchable, editable, and endlessly performable. Profiles become tiny museums. Likes become emotional verdicts. Authenticity becomes a style. Privacy becomes suspicious. The body becomes adjustable. Even grief, friendship, virtue, and happiness acquire interfaces. Drawing on thinkers such as Socrates, Hegel, Goffman, Foucault, Debord, Baudrillard, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others, this book explains major philosophical ideas in plain language and shows how they appear in everyday digital life. No prior knowledge of philosophy is required. Only a working familiarity with notifications, awkward self-presentation, and the faint suspicion that the internet has made being a person unnecessarily administrative. This is not a call to abandon social media and live in a forest, although the forest has made a strong case. Instead, it asks how we might live more reflectively online: how to seek recognition without becoming dependent on metrics, how to appear without becoming only appearance, how to share without surrendering privacy, and how to remain more than what can be seen. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798185504284
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