The class-traveller’s performative identity can be enjoyed even while betraying one’s parents

Evidence

And yet, Nigel is too much in love with his own cleverness, too much attached to the role of alienated workingclass boy that he has been invited to play. He knows he has betrayed his parents. His father, ambivalent about him at the best of times, both proud and resentful, simmers; his mother, uncomprehending, weeps, “But it’s clean. You could eat off the floor here…” — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 333

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes ch14’s Ripley analysis: an improvised, self-staged identity one loves too much to give up. — connects to: Class mobility’s central psychology is double betrayal and shame about that shame — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 331; Analytical writing about identity can precede the personal ability to inhabit it

Broader Connections

• Analytical writing about identity can precede the personal ability to inhabit it #expands (0.75)