Abstract

[The Dissemination of the Self in the Age of Selfies: An Interpretation of the Infosphere Through the Lens of Luigi Pirandello and Jean-Paul Sartre]. In his most recent works, Luciano Floridi has highlighted the paradoxical effects that life online — the “onlife” experience, as he calls it — can have on individuals’ perception of their own identity. For example, the reduction of our identity to patterns useful for commercial profiling and the dizzying increase in the number of images we share — images that do not age with us — can produce a crisis of self-recognition. But are these phenomena truly new? Even before the development of digital civilisation, philosophy and literature had warned us of the difficulty of maintaining a stable image of oneself. The works of Pirandello and Sartre will therefore allow us to address the question of what is old and what is new in the current crisis of the self.