Trick mirror : reflections on self-delusion

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.

Item details

ISBN: 0525510540
ISBN: 9780525510543
ISBN: 9780525510550
Physical Description: print
xi, 303 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York : Random House, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303).
Formatted Contents Note:	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.

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Subject:

Tolentino, Jia
Social media Psychological aspects
Generation Y
Self-doubt
United States Civilization 21st century
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Self-doubt
Generation Y
Civilization
United States
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