Mouldering The Imaginary. Ethics and Policies, #7

With the rise of social media platforms, humanity entered an entirely new era: the age of perpetual performance. Today, everything can be content. Everything can be shared. Everything can be measured. The platforms that now mediate a large portion of our social lives have quietly reordered our psychology, nudging us toward behaviours that align less with who we are and more with what performs well.
The result is a world where the distinction between authenticity and performance is collapsing. A world in which the average person becomes, in some small but meaningful way, an influencer - managing their life, shaping their image, and participating in an economy where attention is both currency and commodity. This book examines the perverse effect of that transformation: how social media platforms and the influencer ecosystem have reshaped the human mind, altered the dynamics of community and identity, and changed what it means to be a person among others.