Trick mirror : reflections on self-delusion / Jia Tolentino
- Author:
- Tolentino, Jia
- Published:
- New York : Random House, [2019]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2019
- Physical Description:
- xi, 303 pages ; 25 cm
- Contents:
- The I in the internet -- Reality TV me -- Always be optimizing -- Pure heroines -- Ecstasy -- The story of a generation in seven scams -- We come from old Virginia -- The cult of the difficult woman -- I thee dread.
- Summary:
- A writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine's journey from brave to blank to bitter; and the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die.
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- ISBN:
- 0525510540 (hardcover)
9780525510543 (hardcover) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303).
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