Michael Puett
You and Your Profile is a truly wonderful book that provides a penetrating exploration of today’s conceptions of identity. This beautiful work offers powerful insights on the contemporary condition as well as a moving way to think about identity formation.
Michael J. Sandel
In this illuminating, inventive work of philosophy and social theory, Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D’Ambrosio argue that identity today is less about authenticity (being true to oneself) or sincerity (fulfilling one's roles) than a ceaseless project of curating the profiles by which others see us. Profilicity—the work of winning views, likes, ratings, and followers—has displaced authenticity. Drawing artfully upon Daoist philosophy, German social theory, and astute observations of popular culture, You and Your Profile offers a novel, provocative account of identity for the social media age.
Los Angeles Review of Books - Gloria B. Yu
Close readers will also admire the book’s overarching theory of identity, which, like many grand theories, is elegant and enticing. . . The authors convincingly argue for identity as an ever-evolving technology and profilicity as its latest, most complex iteration.
Hartmut Rosa
There can be no doubt that questions of identity, authenticity, and character take on a completely new meaning in the digital age of social media. Moeller and D'Ambrosio's startling book provides fascinating insights into the global fabrication of a new conception of the self.
David Stark
What is your profile on social media? More likely, you manage several. Read Moeller and D'Ambrosio for insightful observations about the new problem of curating identity. In contrast to pre-modern sincerity aligning self to external role and modernity’s problem of authenticity as expression of the 'true self,' they give us profilicity.