Profilicity: When Your Profile Replaces Your Authentic Self (Narcissism, Spectacle and Simulacrum)
July 11, 2025
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as posted by the channelVideo Presentation in International Conference on Addiction Medicine, Mental Health, and Psychiatry, Singapore, March 2026
Profilicity
Nietzsche: ““Become who you are!” transformed into Moeller’s: “become who you wish to be seen as.”
Outcome of crisis of authenticity.
Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory: second-order observation.
Charles Taylor’s Secular Age (2007) of authenticity.
Nothingness as antidote to Narcissism.
Ironically, authenticity by itself gave rise to collectivist identity politics at the expense of individualism.
Authenticity is asocial: the Other and social expectations obstruct it. Sartre (“hell is other people”, No Exit), Heidegger in Das Man.
SIMULACRUM (simulacra)
Spectacle, Integrated spectacle
Détournement, Recuperation
LITERATURE
2022 HansGeorg Moeller Beyond OriginalityThe Birth of Profilicity from the Spirit of Postmodernity ISSN 19087330
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