The Yale Review | Jesse Damiani: “Is Life Online Real?”
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Jesse Damiani interrogates how Instagram shapes perception, memory, and selfhood.
The Yale Review | Jesse Damiani: “Is Life Online Real?” Folio Instagram Is life online real? Jesse Damiani This image was created with the assistance of DALL·E 3. To read more of The Yale Review ’ s folio “Is This Real?,” click here . Reality is a medium , and I’m thumbing through it. I’m on Instagram, where a video is a “Reel.” I land on an influencer who eats upsetting amounts of food and then runs until he has burned off all the calories. In this video, he eats eleven thousand calories of Taco Bell and then runs eighty-plus miles across thirteen-plus hours, posting a screenshot of his fitne
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