#profilicity

The notion of curatorship is pertinent for understanding profilicity because it expresses nonauthenticity rather than inauthenticity. Persons manage their personas and profiles, are emotionally invested in them, and are constantly involved in staging their presentation. Personas and their profiles are exhibited like public works of art; they must be taken care of, cared about, and cared for. Hans-Georg Möller, Paul D'Ambrosio, You and your Profile. Identity after Authenticity, 2021

December 2022/1 Yes, the objective form is the most subjective in matter.  Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.  Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

November 2022/3b + 3a To keep the social validation feedback loop going, it is of crucial importance to regulate and channel the power flow. Yes, power is concentrated in high profiles, but all low profiles are, and must be, integrated into the ongoing circulation of power lest they drop out of the loop. Social validation feedback loops are social power generators and regenerators. Just as in the capitalist economy the poor need to be given the constant opportunity to spend the little money they have (so that this money can eventually make the rich richer), in profilicity the low profiles constantly need to be given the opportunity to spend their profilic power in evaluating the profiles of others. And the cycle is self-reinforcing. By citing Naomi Klein or Judith Butler, we further their high profiles. And if we don’t cite people like them, we lower our profile even further by not being “in the discourse.” Hans-Georg Möller, Paul D'Ambrosio, You and your Profile. Identity after Authenticity, 2021

Hans-Georg Möller, Paul D’ambrosio, You and Your Profile. Identity after Authenticity, 2021

August 2022/2 Profilicity means assuming identity through public accounts of oneself. By presenting their profiles, people tell others and themselves who they are, and they are made accountable for it. Hans-Georg Möller, Paul D’ambrosio, You and Your Profile. Identity after Authenticity, 2021

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