Living like common online personas

Dedicated to perceptions, Pulp (the band), and the fabricated ease of the Instagram selfie

At what point does our living become a performance?

Not long ago, a friend asked what I had prepared for the coming Sunday’s newsletter. I said that I hadn’t prepared anything, that I often write it the night before, without clear direction, almost breathlessly, discovering what I want to say as I go (bad writing advice by the way), but that since we’d …