Critical Nonsense

Year-End Wraps and Online Performativity


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Why are we obsessed with year-end wrap-ups? And when does performance on social media go wrong? [17:26]
This week, special guests Steven Ebert and Nora Mestrich join Joey to talk about Spotify Wrapped, Dunbar's Number puns, rebirth, vague-booking, trauma, and Walden. They don't talk about how we never edit out things in post that we say we will.
* Book recommendation: Atomic Habits (https://books.google.com/books?id=lFhbDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=atomic+habits&source=gbs_navlinks_s), by James Clear
* See your Spotify Wrapped here. (https://www.spotify.com/us/wrapped/)
* Spotify Wrapped: the Fallout (from The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/dec/06/spotify-wrapped-users-alarmed-by-their-own-listening-habits))
* Metro (https://t.co/pAasoWr4mk?amp=1) on Sadfishing
* The "are you in the right headspace" meme (https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/are-you-in-the-right-headspace-meme) and "Self-Care Templates" (https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/47062/1/not-in-the-right-headspace-twitter-tumblr-emotional-capacity-self-care-templates)
* More book recommendations: Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bored_Lonely_Angry_Stupid/XFWQDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0), by Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt.
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