#the digital self

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My students may not have real live doubles making chaos for them, but they have nonetheless grown up with an acute consciousness of having an externalized double—a digital double, an idealized identity that is partitioned from their “real” selves and that serves as a role they must perform for the benefit of others if they are to succeed. As part of this performance, they must project the unwanted and dangerous parts of themselves onto others (the unenlightened, the problematic, the deplorable, the “not me” that sharpens the borders of the “me”). At its worst, this manifests in the sort of online pile-on and shaming culture that shatters lives and makes all of our selves feel so precarious...

When the self is carved up, the external self can develop its own agenda and overtake the “real” self completely. It’s a lesson highly relevant in the age of human-impersonating chatbots, but it may also help explain why so many formerly trustworthy people seem to turn into unscrupulous attention addicts on platforms designed to partition us from ourselves. It may be that those people—the ones hawking sham cures or making surprising alliances with malevolent figures like Bannon and Carlson—are simply doing what it takes to attend to the brand version of themselves. A self that has its own needs and agendas: to be seen, to stay relevant, to be omnipresent in our cultural hall of mirrors.

"When Naomi Klein Realized People Regularly Confused Her With Naomi Wolf, She Went Down a Rabbit Hole", Naomi Klein, Vanity Fair

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Art in the Age of Digital Puritanism (2022) by Iness Rychlik The artist reposted it in 2024 "because it feels relevant in social media today".

[ra3kiv]

[chez-cinnamon]

What if Pomni seeks out comfort from Kinger bc of the last episode?? Part 2 !!

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GRRRRRRR THEY MEAN EVERYTHING TO MEEEEE

Also hc that Kinger glowing is something he can control, like his own little cartoon physics gimmick. He mainly uses it for Pomni comfort purposes, like a warm nightlight!!

[comikbook]

Under My Skin, 2024, Digital Painting by myself, Liz Pence

⬇️commissions⬇️

[burkiningalerisi]

[lamelarts]

Captain Curly 🧿💊💙

Honestly i love Curly from Mouthwashing a lot and especially after seeing all the fanarts of him djjdjd i decided to draw him too 🤲💙 i also drew Anya, Swansea, and Daisuke as well cause i love them sm hdjd they deserved better oh and Yimpy is there too 🙏

This game is much darker than i expected jdjdjd more of a psychological horror 🫢 All the characters r really well written and really complex jdjdjd i love Curly and Anya the most out of all of them 🤲💜 idk they really precious to me jdjdjd

[blackkatdraws2]

[⚠️The Amazing Digital Circus SPOILERS] This episode was interesting!

[cobwebbedvelour]

Binghe is so normal about his husband, no matter what

[hxllo-hui]

Just finished svsss - they’re so silly I love them all

[boombaux]

dick picking jason up from a random address like a divorced mother picking her child up from school

[drivebypainter]

"Oh No! You’re Meeting All My Standards!"

The next chapter of 50% of All Marriages End in Divorce is out!

Follow Mobei-jun as he realizes how hot a hamster is (´･_･`)

[itzitxou]

Taking care of your spy is not easy but he's trying very hard 🩵🐹❄️

[temeyes]

biker ghost? biker ghost.

[keymintt]

they say it wasn't humans who found the lost dutchman's gold

(another set of traffic box illustrations!!)

[lalalychee]

i'm so, so excited to share this painting with you. i have officially been making art for 20 years, and i thought it would be fun to repaint the first digital work i ever made.

i have wanted to give up art so many times over the years. i'm tremendously proud of myself for sticking with it and improving as much as i have. i hope you're proud of me too! please be sure to zoom in to see all those details i worked so hard on (especially the rhinestones!!). thank you for being with me during my art journey. 20 years, 20 more 🖤