Simulated Selves : The Undoing of Personal Identity in the Modern World (Hardcover)

preface acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Narrated Self:Time and the Dramatisation of Historical Agency 3. The Publication of the Self: the Sublimation of Personal Identity in Publicity and Art Appreciation 4. The Disintegration of the Self: the Origins of Abstraction and the De-objectification of the World 5. The Democratisation of the Self: the Integration of Creative Endeavour into the Fabric of Daily Life and the Death of Art 6. The Trans-personalisation of the Self: the Material Culture of Communication and the Communalisation of Identity 7. The Psychological Self: The Pathology of Art and Cinematographic Modes of Self-Remembering 8. The Linguistic Self: the De-verberation of the Self and the End of Meaning bibliography index