Lena Dunham’s oversharing style emerged from elite New York creative privilege

Evidence

Across town, writer-director Lena Dunham emerged as another quintessential millennial creative. The daughter of artists Carroll Dunham and Laurie Simmons, she grew steeped in the privileges of an ultraliberal, affluent milieu. At Saint Ann’s, a Brooklyn private school with a creative pedigree, she took an interest in playwriting, which evolved into filmmaking during her years at Oberlin College. There, she began honing her signature oversharing style through short YouTube videos like “The Fountain,” where she brushes her teeth and bathes in a campus fountain while wearing a bikini. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 343

Categorization

• SEED: The Dunham example is a candidate for the reader’s counter-argument that the era does have a signature Marx mislabeled — oversharing itself could be the 21st century’s genuine aesthetic, emerging from a particular class position, not mere blankness.