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The Interface Self
The Deeper Thinking Podcast
For those who sense their identity stretching to fit the screen—and want to listen more closely to what remains.
In a world that rewards legibility over complexity, what happens to the parts of us that don’t render cleanly? This episode explores the soft coercion of digital platforms—how identity, emotion, and presence are shaped by visibility logic, and how silence becomes a form of resistance. Drawing from post-structural theory, affect studies, and narrative psychology, we consider what remains when we stop performing and start remembering the self beneath the format.
This is not a critique of social media—it is a meditation on Goffman’s dramaturgical identity, Foucault’s ambient surveillance, and the technological shaping of subjectivity. With gentle reference to Byung-Chul Han, Mark Fisher, Judith Butler, and Donald Winnicott, we explore how presence dissolves under the pressure to narrate, and how attention fatigue becomes an existential condition.
We reflect on the difference between performance and presence, the ethics of ambiguity, and the subtle grief of being understood too quickly. In a space that rarely allows us to pause, we ask what it means to be unrendered, and why that might be the last intact form of resistance.
Reflections
This episode honours the ache beneath the caption. It’s an invitation to feel what remains when the performance ends.
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The Interface Self
The Deeper Thinking Podcast
For those who sense their identity stretching to fit the screen—and want to listen more closely to what remains.
In a world that rewards legibility over complexity, what happens to the parts of us that don’t render cleanly? This episode explores the soft coercion of digital platforms—how identity, emotion, and presence are shaped by visibility logic, and how silence becomes a form of resistance. Drawing from post-structural theory, affect studies, and narrative psychology, we consider what remains when we stop performing and start remembering the self beneath the format.
This is not a critique of social media—it is a meditation on Goffman’s dramaturgical identity, Foucault’s ambient surveillance, and the technological shaping of subjectivity. With gentle reference to Byung-Chul Han, Mark Fisher, Judith Butler, and Donald Winnicott, we explore how presence dissolves under the pressure to narrate, and how attention fatigue becomes an existential condition.
We reflect on the difference between performance and presence, the ethics of ambiguity, and the subtle grief of being understood too quickly. In a space that rarely allows us to pause, we ask what it means to be unrendered, and why that might be the last intact form of resistance.
Reflections
This episode honours the ache beneath the caption. It’s an invitation to feel what remains when the performance ends.
Why Listen?
Listen On:
Support This Work
If this episode stayed with you and you’d like to support the ongoing work, you can do so gently here: Buy Me a Coffee. Thank you for being part of this slower conversation.
Bibliography
Bibliography Relevance
The real self isn’t hidden. It’s just uncaptioned.
#TheInterfaceSelf #JudithButler #ByungChulHan #MarkFisher #Winnicott #AttentionFatigue #Presence #QuietRefusal #TheDeeperThinkingPodcast #Selfhood #PostPerformance #AlgorithmicIdentity #DigitalPhilosophy
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