What Happened to Being Nobody

We live in an era of compulsory visibility. Post or be forgotten. Brand yourself or disappear. Share the holiday, the grief, the morning routine or risk the algorithm's quiet punishment. What Happened to Being Nobody is an unflinching examination of what it costs to be perpetually online: the exhaustion of performing a self, the anxiety of metrics, the slow erosion of private life.Drawing on thinkers from Foucault to Mark Fisher, and ranging from the psychology of the selfie to the politics of logging off, it asks what we have surrendered in exchange for a following and whether we can get any of it back. Part cultural criticism, part survival guide, this book is for anyone who has ever felt the pull to delete everything and start again, and wondered what that impulse is actually telling them.