Car interior becomes a forced-confession space for authentic selfhood

Evidence

Yet the car has seemingly become the ideal space for intimacy today—though, again, not because it permits freedom but because it permits enclosure. Its liminality—that it is neither home nor work nor school but a medium for transport from one enclosure to another—seems to demonstrate that people are more “real,” more “authentic,” in their cars than elsewhere. Being “real,” being oneself, requires imprisonment in a moving vehicle, where one is simultaneously mobile and shackled by seatbelts into a chair. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 190

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• XREF: Authenticity-through-enclosure is a core contradiction of influencer selfhood — the person-as-firm must be confined and managed to appear ‘real.’ — connects to: Sanctuary is the historical name for spaces where a self can form — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1513