The Philosophy of Posting Everything Online

Everyone knows someone who posts everything. The easy explanations are attention seeking and vanity, and both are too small for what is actually happening. -- CHAPTERS -- 00:00 Everyone knows someone who posts everything 01:17 Berkeley, and the line that gets misused 02:38 One. Being seen makes you real: Hegel on recognition 04:28 Rousseau, living outside yourself 05:53 Cooley, and what psychology measured 07:40 Sartre and Han, the look and the display 09:13 Where the first half cracks 09:56 Two. The audience holds nothing: the pivot 10:31 Epictetus, and what is not yours 12:00 Schopenhauer, where your existence sits 13:24 Marcus Aurelius and Pascal, and the sting 15:06 Where the second half cracks 15:48 Where that leaves you: the ending 17:03 The atlas -- SOURCES, every quotation -- Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710), Part I, sections 3 and 6. Original English. Project Gutenberg 4723. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Mind (1807), IV.A, "Lordship and Bondage". Trans. J. B. Baillie, 1910. archive.org cu31924097557171, vol. I p. 175. Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1755), Part Two. Trans. G. D. H. Cole, 1913. Project Gutenberg 46333. Epictetus, The Encheiridion, chapter I. Trans. George Long, 1877. Project Gutenberg 10661. Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life (Parerga und Paralipomena, 1851), chapter IV, section 1. Trans. T. Bailey Saunders, 1890. Project Gutenberg 10741. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations XII.4 and IV.18 to 19. Trans. George Long, 1862. Project Gutenberg 15877. Pascal, Pensees, fragment 147 (Brunschvicg). Trans. W. F. Trotter, 1904. Project Gutenberg 18269. Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943), Part Three. Summarised, not quoted: in copyright. Byung-Chul Han, The Transparency Society (2012; trans. Erik Butler, 2015). Summarised, not quoted: in copyright. -- IMAGES (public domain or CC0, each also named on screen) -- Portraits: Berkeley (John Smibert), Hegel (Jakob Schlesinger), Rousseau (M. Q. de La Tour), Epictetus (Henri Bonnart), Schopenhauer (Johann Schaefer, 1859), Marcus Aurelius (Charles Simonneau), Pascal (anonymous, Musee Carnavalet). Library of Congress: Robert Cornelius (1839), Frances Benjamin Johnston, C.M. Bell studio, Jack Delano, Arthur Rothstein, Detroit Publishing Co. Rijksmuseum: Hercules Segers, Hendrik Numan. Musee Carnavalet: E. Badoureau after Kretz, Robert Benard. The Met: Duclos after Saint-Aubin. Also: Ortelius, Romani Imperii Imago; Vesalius, Fabrica; Luke Howard's clouds; Reveley's Panopticon; Encyclopedie plates; A. Robin (Science History Institute); the Wundt laboratory photograph; a Pompeii fresco (photo Jebulon); title pages of the Discours (1755), De seipso (1558) and the Pensees (1670); Blatter fur literarische Unterhaltung (1853); the 1664 Stoics frontispiece; the 1922 Salads frontispiece. -- FOOTAGE (each clip carries its byline on screen) -- Pexels: Özgür Sürmeli, Ivan S, Gilmer Diaz Estela, Thirdman, Gustavo Fring, Pavel Danilyuk, Maurice Supple, cottonbro studio, RDNE Stock project, Vilkenson Thimothée, Mikhail Nilov, Daneswara Eka, Mariano Quintero, Tima Miroshnichenko, Sergei Starostin, Coverr, Los Muertos Crew, Ron Lach, Natasha Cherie Farina. Pixabay: video 209629. -- MUSIC -- "Lofoten" and "Steppe" by Doc & Lena Selyanina (Musictrade MT027, 2010), licensed under CC BY 3.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... - source: https://archive.org/details/DocLenaSe... Sound effects are CC0. ---- #philosophy #socialmedia #Hegel #Rousseau #Epictetus #Schopenhauer #videoessay This video quotes only public-domain texts and uses licensed or public-domain imagery. Any brief quotation of copyrighted material is for commentary, criticism, scholarship and education, and is fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976.