{"id":448,"date":"2017-08-30T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T23:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=448"},"modified":"2017-08-30T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T23:42:53","slug":"448","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2017\/08\/30\/448\/","title":{"rendered":"Imaginary Playmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One reason I&#8217;m not as opposed to social media as some is that I recognize within Twitter, Instagram and such the venerable humanist tradition of keeping diaries and journals, of exchanging correspondence.<\/p>\n<p>(On this point see the opening chapter of Peter Sloterdijk&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/petersloterdijk.net\/werk\/regeln-fuer-den-menschenpark\/\">Regeln f\u00fcr den Menschenpark<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Before, to be sure, diaries were kept private, even secret, often under lock and key. Yet rare the diarist who did not have an inside reader, an interlocutor akin to a child&#8217;s imaginary playmate who could eavesdrop on these reflective acts of autobiographical self-constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Now anyone can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reason I&#8217;m not as opposed to social media as some is that I recognize within Twitter, Instagram and such the venerable humanist tradition of keeping diaries and journals, of exchanging correspondence. (On this point see the opening chapter of Peter Sloterdijk&#8217;s Regeln f\u00fcr den Menschenpark.) Before, to be sure, diaries were kept private, even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2017\/08\/30\/448\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imaginary Playmates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26,15,12],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-confession","tag-privacy","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}