The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and
politics In an age where our experiences are processed and filtered
through a wide variety of mediums, both digital and physical, how
do we tell our own story? How do we "get a life," make sense of who
we are and the way we live, and communicate that to others? Stories
of the Self takes the literary study of autobiography and opens it
up to a broad and fascinating range of material practices beyond
the book, investigating the manifold ways people are documenting
themselves in contemporary culture. Anna Poletti explores Andy
Warhol's Time Capsules, a collection of six hundred cardboard boxes
filled with text objects from the artist's everyday life; the
mid-aughts crowdsourced digital archive PostSecret; queer zine
culture and its practices of remixing and collaging; and the
bureaucratic processes surrounding surveillance dossiers. Stories
of the Self argues that while there is a strong emphasis on the
importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and
politics, mediation is just as important in establishing the
credibility and legibility of life writing. Poletti argues that the
very media used for writing our lives intrinsically shapes how we
are seen to matter.
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