Abstract
This chapter explores ‘trolling’ as a digital technology of the subject. It examines ‘trolling’ vis-à-vis ‘influencing’ discussed in Chap. 2, considering it as a performative practice that has a crucial bearing on the contemporary conceptions, as well as uses, of truth. It posits that the pathology of ‘trolling’, far from being an exception to mainstream culture is, in fact, the natural extension of its key, in themselves pathological, precepts. The chapter concludes by arguing that the supposedly self-sovereign aspect of ‘trolling’ is an expression of ultra-transparency that increasingly eclipses subjectivity.
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Stypinska, D. (2022). I Troll, Therefore I Am. In: Social Media, Truth and the Care of the Self. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18108-5_3
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