Self-identity is continuously revised, never a fixed authentic core
Evidence
Moreover, the emphasis on being yourself overlooks the fact that self-definition is a continual process. We are writing a novel of identity for others, and the persona is simply the latest draft. Whoever we are, there is always an unstated opportunity for future revisions. And in a world of permanently shifting symbolic meanings, we’ll surely have to make changes, regardless of whether we want to or not. — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 288
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Identity is perpetually in formation, never a completed essence. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 203; Identity can only be understood through difference, never self-sameness — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 1189; Authenticity as full self-identity is impossible because iterability makes self-presence unattainable in principle — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 767 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Identity is perpetually in formation, never a completed essence.
#corroborates(0.97) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 203 - Authenticity as full self-identity is impossible because iterability makes self-presence unattainable in principle
#corroborates(0.90) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 767 - Identity is positional and processual, never reducible to one fixed position
#corroborates(0.90) - Contemporary identity is self-fashioning rather than fixed essence
#corroborates(0.88) - Human identity is constructed and occasionally invented, not natural and stable
#corroborates(0.85) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 839 - The authentic inner self is a structural illusion; feelings are trite repetitions
#corroborates(0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1186 - Self-identity is now a reflexive project conducted amid abstract systems
#expands(0.82) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 295 - Identity is now a matter of choice rather than inherited absolute truth
#expands(0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 112 - Identity can only be understood through difference, never self-sameness
#complicates(0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1189 - Corporate brand logic imposes a forced timeless consistency on personal identity
#complicates(0.73) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 552