Stories of the Self by Anna Poletti - 9781479863600

Stories of the SelfLife Writing After the Book\nAuthor(s): Anna Poletti\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479863600, 978-1479863600\nSynopsis\nThe importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics\n 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 arch.