Trick mirror : reflections on self-delusion / Jia Tolentino.

Tolentino, Jia, author.

Book

First edition.

New York : Random House, [2019]

xi, 303 pages ; 25 cm

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. 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.

Popular culture -- 21st century.

United States -- Civilization -- 21st century.

Essays

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-303).

The I in 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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