Acedia Part II: An Internet of Narcissism
...hizophrenic implications of social media use, Among the “many narcissistic uses” that Sontag attributes to the camera, “self-surveillance” ranks among the most important, not only because it provides the technical means of ceaseless self-scrutiny but because it renders the sense of selfhood dependent on the consumption of images of the self, at the same time calling into question the reality of the external world. There’s much more to The Culture...