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he spent a year in a monastery determining the core of his selfhood
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Russell creates work spans art, gender, race, and technology, with a focus on the intersections of cyberculture and digital selfhood.
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Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Dec. 2024
The setup risks absurdity—the cast (which includes Nathan) essentially wears gorilla suits—but the premise is developed with meticulous and quasi-biological specificity, anthropological rigor, and imaginative speculation about the creatures’ emotions and senses of selfhood.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
His characters are so recognizably, painfully millennial because their selfhood is so obviously mediated by the Internet; their instincts are inextricable from their upbringing in an online ecosystem that seizes every individual’s desires and vulnerabilities as fodder for profit and exploitation.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
But for the last few hundred years, these instruments have been treated as separate entities, one concerned with the physical world and validated by objective empirical testing, the other, largely, with subjective selfhood and human meaning.
—Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
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Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Dec. 2024
The setup risks absurdity—the cast (which includes Nathan) essentially wears gorilla suits—but the premise is developed with meticulous and quasi-biological specificity, anthropological rigor, and imaginative speculation about the creatures’ emotions and senses of selfhood.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
His characters are so recognizably, painfully millennial because their selfhood is so obviously mediated by the Internet; their instincts are inextricable from their upbringing in an online ecosystem that seizes every individual’s desires and vulnerabilities as fodder for profit and exploitation.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
But for the last few hundred years, these instruments have been treated as separate entities, one concerned with the physical world and validated by objective empirical testing, the other, largely, with subjective selfhood and human meaning.
—Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
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“Selfhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/selfhood. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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self·hood
ˈself-ˌhu̇d 
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