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he spent a year in a monastery determining the core of his selfhood
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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.
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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
The compassion owed to someone apparently in the cruel grip of an inexorably advancing disease that destroys selfhood should not obscure this fact: Biden’s malady is not robbing the nation of either an impressive political talent or a singularly public-spirited official.
—George F. Will, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
The work dealt with selfhood in flux and the many roles Black women occupy, but these themes are not always immediately legible, and that is why the series has been viewed as a breakthrough by critics.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 18 June 2024
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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
The compassion owed to someone apparently in the cruel grip of an inexorably advancing disease that destroys selfhood should not obscure this fact: Biden’s malady is not robbing the nation of either an impressive political talent or a singularly public-spirited official.
—George F. Will, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
The work dealt with selfhood in flux and the many roles Black women occupy, but these themes are not always immediately legible, and that is why the series has been viewed as a breakthrough by critics.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 18 June 2024
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“Selfhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/selfhood. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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selfhood
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ˈself-ˌhu̇d 
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