You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity

313 Pages·2021·3.725 MB·English

by  Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D'Ambrosio

YOU AND YOUR
PROFILE

YOU AND YOUR
PROFILE
IDENTITY AFTER
AUTHENTICITY
HANS- GEORG
MOELLER AND
PAUL J. D’AMBROSIO
Columbia University Press New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Title: You and your profile : identity after authenticity.
Description: New York : Columbia University Press, 2021. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020039615 (print) | LCCN 2020039616 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780231196000 (hardback) | ISBN 9780231196017 (trade paperback) |
ISBN 9780231551595 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Identity (Psychology)
Classification: LCC BF697 .Y675 2021 (print) | LCC BF697 (ebook) |
DDC 155.2—dc23
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In fond memory of Henry Rosemont, Jr.
1

The huge vortices of energy created by our media present us with
similar possibilities of evasion of the consequences of destruction.
By studying the pattern of the effects of this huge vortex of energy
in which we are involved, it may be possible to program a strat-
egy of evasion and survival.
— Marshall McLuhan, “Man and Media”
Men will not act by grand plans or formulations of a scheme of
ideas, or even by the impulsion of a vested interest, but in the
very first instance by the notion they entertain of themselves—
and this picture they draw of their private characters is one to
which they will address themselves with assiduity of purpose
over many years: no portrait is more intensely drawn, Gideon,
than the self- portrait.
— Timothy Mo, An Insular Possession

CONTENTS
Pre- Face xi
1 The Bigger Picture 1
2 Profilicity 35
3 Sincerity 135
4 Authenticity 163
5 Identity 191
6 Sanity 229
7 Conclusion 253
Postscript 257
Acknowledgments 263
Notes 265
Bibliography 283
Index 295