One, No One, and 5 Billion: The Dissolution of the Self in the Age of Networks Mihnea Măruță, Identitatea virtuală. Cum și de ce ne transformă rețelele sociale, București, Humanitas, 2023
One, No One, and 5 Billion: The Dissolution of the Self in the Age of Networks Mihnea Măruță, Identitatea virtuală. Cum și de ce ne transformă rețelele sociale, București, Humanitas, 2023

Summary/Abstract: The volume Identitatea virtuală. Cum și de ce ne transformă rețelele de socializare (Virtual Identity. How and why social networks transform us) by Mihnea Măruță offers a profound and original philosophical analysis of the way in which the digital world reshapes the self. The volume – a revised version of the author’s doctoral thesis – explores the contemporary obsession with being present in the eyes of others and the desire not to disappear after death, identifying in the network a “magic mirror” that maintains the illusion of digital transcendence. This chronicle places this unique Romanian contribution in the context of the international literature on online identity, highlighting the way in which Măruță summons a vast theoretical arsenal to dismantle the myth of technological neutrality and plead, memorably, for the rediscovery of anchoring in reality.

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