The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures

This volume investigates our dissonant and exuberant existences online. As socialmedia users we know we''re under surveillance, yet we continue to click, like, loveand share ourselves online as if nothing was. So, how do we overcome the currentonline identity regime? Can we overthrow the rule of Narcissus and destroy theplanetary middle class subject? In this catalogue of strategies, the reader willfind stories on hacker groups, gaming platforms in the occupied territories, artobjects, selfies, augmented reality, Gen Z autoethnographies, love and life. Theauthors of this anthology believe we cannot simply put vanity aside and a rationalanalysis of platform capitalism is not going to convince the youngs on TikTok norliberate us from Zuckerbergian indentured servitude. Do we really need to wadethrough the subjective mud and ''learn more'' about online aesthetics? The answeris yes.Writing by Wendy Chun, Franco Berardi "BIFO", Julia Preisker, Katherine Behar,Rebecca Stein, Fabio Cristiano, Emilio Distretti, Natalie Bookchin, Ana Peraica,Mitra Azar, Donatella Della Ratta, Gabriella Coleman, Marco Deseriis, AlbertoMicali, Daniel de Zeeuw,Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Jodi Dean.