Contents
6 Introduction The Arts of Self Concepts of the Self The Structure of the Book
7 1 Self, Society and Everyday Life Self, Symbols and Others: Symbolic Interactionism Presentations of Self: Goffman Reflexivity and the Self: Giddens Further Reading
8 2 The Repression of Self Psychoanalysis and the Self Culture and Repression Further Reading
9 3 Technologies of the Self Technologies of the Self: Foucault Governmentality: New Technologies, New Selves Further Reading
10 4 Self, Sexuality and Gender Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Two Recent Views The Politics of Gender Performance: Butler Queer Theory: Contesting Self, Defying Gender Further Reading
11 5 The Postmodern Self All that is Modern Melts into Postmodern? Strategies of the Self: Modern and Postmodern Further Reading
12 6 The Algorithmic Self The Brave New World of AI Chatbots, Talk and the Self Algorithmic Surveillance and the Self Further Reading Note
13 7 The Individualized Self: From Reinvention to Mobile Lives Individualization of the Self Self-Reinvention: The New Individualism Reinvention Instant change Speed Short-termism The Mobile Self Further Reading
14 Conclusion Inner Depth, or Inside Out Identity Politics, or Critique of Self Afterword: Global Identities, the Rise of Anti-Self Theories and New Horizons
15 Index
Guide
1 Cover
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3 1 Self, Society and Everyday Life