Despite its benefits, social media is often deemed inherently solipsistic.
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It's so solipsistic, but there's this joy to watching it.
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Opinion Brexit has exposed my country as a solipsistic backwater.
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"We're going through a very solipsistic moment," Mr. Leonard said.
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Darke flees, entirely solipsistic, magnificently consistent in his scathing, odious arrogance.
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If the game isn't multiplayer, the whole experience is downright solipsistic.
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Part of the reason is that I'm less anxious, less solipsistic.
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This extreme focus on the self can make "Motherland" seem solipsistic.
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When we do, he argues, we become solipsistic, narcissistic and self-focused.
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As a hymn to the solipsistic backwater we've become, it's painfully apt.
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Each person can seem observed in some unconscious dance or solipsistic performance.
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These were not solipsistic selfies but images of strangers and their lives.
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Sarah Gannett, Baltimore Unmentioned here is the core distortion of porn: It's solipsistic.
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As media jobs go, this is one of the more solitary, solipsistic ones.
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Such were the small rites and connective tissue of the pre-solipsistic era.
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That was my solipsistic response on hearing of the artificial author's doomsday potential.
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Incompetent clowns in power and the opposition turning into a solipsistic personality cult.
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She balances the show's solipsistic protagonist with an unwavering devotion to joy and generosity.
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Imagine the carping, caviling nastiness of it, the solipsistic conceit of such a deed.
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Not that the show is especially generous to her self-indulgent, solipsistic companions, either.
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His solipsistic immaturity can sometimes bother me, but his truculent bravery often delights me.
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The most first-person of the essays here are deeply solipsistic and third-rate.
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I could see straight through it now—solipsistic, narcissistic, false reality, easy tropes, barely amusing.
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Solipsistic, sex-obsessed and apathetic, Florent-Claude is an archetypal Houellebecq (pronounced WELL-beck) male.
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Still, there's something solipsistic about looking at other creatures and seeing a reflection of ourselves.
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But, whatever else could be said about him, he was foolish, solipsistic, and self-satisfied.
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Revolver can be pretentious, confusing, and solipsistic—but I don't necessarily count these characteristics as faults.
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Marker's questionable methods yield a meandering, solipsistic slog that spoon feeds its messages to the viewer.
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So I do sort of appreciate Destroyed almost as a solipsistic, Lost In Translation type record.
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Westworld seems totally solipsistic, and we've yet to encounter anyone who seems legitimately interested in role-playing.
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If there's one truth to depression, it is that it is both wholly universal and fundamentally solipsistic.
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As with Earn, a child is the only force that can release Glover from his solipsistic bubble.
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But their quest keeps me grinding away to get the Keeper closer to escaping their solipsistic purgatory.
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This is wildly untrue, and any book that debunks this solipsistic fiction is both useful and shakily uncomfortable.
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Many of the biggest complaints about the book come from what a thinly obvious solipsistic fantasy it is.
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Many critics and early viewers have responded to Joker with loathing, because that fantasy is so selfish and solipsistic.
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Globalisation has divided the country between winners and losers, while social media has divided the population into solipsistic tribes.
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It's his Roger Waters-making- The- Wall moment of rockstar panic, likewise resulting in solipsistic mythmaking and musical grandiosity.
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They learn baffling and solipsistic jargon: "Parasites" are people who suffer, creating problems where none exist and craving attention.
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Shelves groan under the weight of books written by solipsistic adults seeking to avenge their lack of parental affection.
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You probably crap out solipsistic, totally uninspiring shit for xojane..That or some dumbass thought piece for equally uptight tools.
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I understand what Allison Benedikt is feeling, but that does not justify her solipsistic ambivalence about the anti-harassment campaign.
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Mr. Jackson's reinvention of this solipsistic form ultimately stalls against the dead-end wall that is built into its structure.
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Maybe there's no mystery to grasp, and my affinity for Blake is just a quirk of timing, a solipsistic recognition.
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O'Rourke's quest for his next favorite "transcendent moment," like someone looking for a fix, has gone from solipsistic to actively harmful.
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To South Koreans, this proves how China elevates its solipsistic and woolly concerns over a threat to the South's very existence.
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In the solipsistic bookcase in Bill Clinton's barn, there isn't one account that really gets to the heart of their enigma.
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"So you are probably all wondering why I am telling you this story," she finally added, stirring from her solipsistic stupor.
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The pleasure of "The Country Life" derives from how skillfully Cusk draws us into "the solipsistic cabbage patch" of Stella's consciousness.
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Generally speaking, their practice often feels inward-turned and even solipsistic, as much concerned with me-ness and process as outcome.
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" Her style also conjures the rambling (and occasionally solipsistic) meditations on self-definition in Sheila Heti's "How Should a Person Be?
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Mind you, Iceage sings of a love that's outwardly obsessive and inwardly solipsistic, a sensuality entirely divorced from the act of fucking.
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That's a very different approach from a solipsistic company that's long acted like its devices were the only ones in the universe.
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In his essay "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" (1989) he bird-dogged the American literary establishment for its solipsistic retreat from realism.
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Trusting their friends' judgment, Tahani and Jason decided that a solipsistic socialite and failed Jacksonville D.J. didn't need to rush into things.
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This is a person whose thinking is so solipsistic, they really feel quite certain that what they think is how things are.
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It all suggested he had some sort of advanced solipsistic ability to live as though no one in the world existed but him.
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It's almost like the same voice as the "Big Wheel" character, even though the "Big Wheel" character is even more solipsistic, you know?
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The solipsistic preoccupation with one's own financial success is accompanied by a certain disrespect and disregard for the less fortunate and the environment.
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In a solipsistic era each of us is a one-person brand, and fashion shows have proven a peerless platform for business enhancement.
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As they retire, recruitment is hobbled by a hiring freeze and a president so solipsistic he can't understand, let alone celebrate, public service.
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What a demented thing to say on such a solipsistic, flow-sustaining, unwavy, missionless, momentum-deficient, same-old-place kind of pop album.
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In the short term this is unlikely to impinge much on Mr Trump's solipsistic world-view, let alone to alter his America First course.
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But fate is a solipsistic wall erected between oneself and the world—a world which is always comprised of confounding, frustrating, and mysterious facts.
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At first, this relentless self-reflection seems solipsistic and overdone—a kind of post-modern posturing—but the ultimate effects are subtler and deeper.
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Can you actually mock someone for being as solipsistic as Mr. Trump is if, in fact, this whole election really has revolved around him?
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BLUE NIGHTS by Joan Didion This book is "honest, unflinching, necessarily solipsistic and, in the way of these things, self-lacerating," our reviewer wrote.
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How solipsistic, to turn all of the world's tragedies, large and small, into a referendum on how appropriately I, personally, am responding to them.
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Both stories are told from the point of view of the male narrators, and the solipsistic, incurious treatment of the female characters is remarkable.
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The higher a person scored, the less solipsistic they were, which is to say, their identity extended beyond themselves to include the broader world.
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That time in puberty when you stop being a kid and you stop being a solipsistic being that cares only about its own gratification.
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Girls, meanwhile, remains one of my favorite shows of the decade, but in 2018, it's much harder to read as anything other than solipsistic.
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Breitbart, house organ of Steve Bannon's solipsistic revolution, fruitlessly dispatched two "reporters" to Alabama to sift through the women's lives for nuggets to shame them.
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It takes a good deal of solipsistic logic to convince oneself that hubris and classism and war are reasonable, and Dadaists sought to dismantle it.
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Trump is a solipsistic branding genius whose "policies" have no contact with Planet Earth and who would be incapable of organizing a coalition, domestic or foreign.
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Pornography may be more likely to turn us into solipsistic masturbators than violent rapists, but it's hard to imagine that it has no effect at all.
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So, always it has to feel like it's coming from me — and that can be a scary thing, and there's certainly a risk of being solipsistic.
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In this age of political correctness, blunt conversations give way to solipsistic meandering around the point and vague platitudes meant to assuage any hint of interpersonal conflict.
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The world of virtual, electronic exploration tends to consist of insular, solipsistic encounters that do not equip us to live in a world full of other people.
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And if that empathy shades into overstatement by the play's end, he has already managed to create a persuasively sad and funny worldview that extends beyond the solipsistic.
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As evidenced by recent countrywide protests over guns and gender rights, the country may have awoken from its apathy, but America will always have reserves of solipsistic melancholy.
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Conveniently, the solipsistic Kent has been reading Ray Kurzweil's 2005 book, "The Singularity Is Near," about the exponential advancement of technology, so he figures it's the second possibility.
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In other words, foolhardy voters, their judgments marred by ignorance and motivated by bigotry, have endangered our fragile republic and put a solipsistic wannabe-autocrat in the White House.
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The seriousness and focus of its video and subject matter could never have come from the younger man who made the solipsistic Camp or the paranoid Because the Internet.
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There's already plenty of reason to criticize Hollywood for its solipsistic tendency to pat itself on the back for fighting oppression, especially when it's only a year removed from #OscarsSoWhite.
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In part, that's because it's also the first book she's written in the first person, giving Smith a chance to play with the solipsistic, limited perspective of first-person narration.
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The disappearance of an antagonist that had defined America's self-image for much of the 20th century unleashed the solipsistic idealism that Niebuhr, among many midcentury intellectuals, had warned against.
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Most open world games are oddly solipsistic affairs: Your character journeys through a world of strangers who appear briefly and then vanish, often within the space of minutes if not hours.
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It's a spooky game, in its atmosphere, but a scary game in what it implies: a sort of solipsistic hell, where there are consistent rules, but you can't really trust reality.
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Despite its enduring popularity among those with the disposable income to burn on solipsistic chatter, today many consider psychoanalysis a discredited discipline, good for little more than in-jokes on Frasier.
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Representative government under the rule of law has proved to be insipid fare for an age that traffics in heady images of power and violence through solipsistic social media and online games.
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She describes her practice as lethargic experience, however, a slow form of expression that she uses to confront her insecurities and combat the solipsistic feelings she says she is constantly afflicted with.
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The unfettered license that male writers have enjoyed when it comes to holding up every stain in the sheets as a palimpsest of their smarting, solipsistic souls is due for an overhaul.
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Now, if you wanted to design a personality type perfectly ill suited to be a change agent in government, you would come up with Donald Trump: solipsistic, impatient, combative, unsubtle and ignorant.
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Not so long ago, the mere fact of writing that you had suffered from depression conferred a badge of courage, but such confessions have devolved into a dull mark of solipsistic forthrightness.
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It's a joyously, unabashedly solipsistic fantasy that ultimately breaks down when it encounters the real world, and the pure fantasy elements and the way Wright undermines them are both part of the fun.
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This forbidding formality that seems rooted in a solipsistic concern with material exploration was even more evident in the section curated by Waltercio Caldas (which contained much too much of his own work).
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Combine those solipsistic provocations with predilections with psychedelic drugs and playfully childlike motifs and you've got all the makings of a classic house jam that DJs of all stripes will be compelled to play.
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There's Chidi's discussion with Simone about how, even if a solipsistic view of the world could turn out to be correct, allowing that view to serve as your motivation has some pretty dire consequences.
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He left the ground open for Barack Obama to remind us that our founders wanted active engaged citizens, not a government run by a solipsistic and self-appointed savior who wants everything his way.
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The positivity that he's built into an aesthetic (and a brand) over the last year isn't blinkered or solipsistic—it's rooted in pain, just like the gospel choruses that he weaves into his tracks.
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There is a profoundly solipsistic element at work in such applications of feminist and therapeutic language, a weaponization of victimhood and gendered suffering to support the primacy of the middle and upper-middle classes.
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A former Disney child star, he segued into blockbuster action movies as an adult before throwing himself into a kind of solipsistic performance art that both made statements about and was powered by his celebrity.
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Lia is a narrator familiar from many coming-of-age novels: needy, solipsistic, obsessed with her own body and feelings, absorbed in a morbid form of femininity that prompts her to cut and burn herself.
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Combine this scenario's inevitable economic consequences with the optics of the president's blundering and solipsistic response, and the coronavirus seems very likely to doom Trump's re-election effort, no matter where he casts the blame.
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Post-9/11, post-Charlottesville and post-El Paso, comic irony is not only tone-deaf and uncool, but also complicit with the kind of evil that flourishes outside the solipsistic bubble of Jerry's apartment.
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Whether they are asked political questions or not, athletes, like other celebrities, will continue to be able to deliver their messages — be they solipsistic or deeply civic — directly and immediately to the public, no gatekeepers required.
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John McCain called Russia's actions "an act of war," and House Speaker Paul Ryan, also a Republican, acknowledged that Russia "clearly tried to meddle in our political system," Trump is caught in his solipsistic house of mirrors.
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Renner thinks that giving up this assumption entirely would destroy a theory's ability to be effective as a means for agents to know about each other's state of knowledge; such a theory could be dismissed as solipsistic.
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Breathing the same arch air, the last show of recent photography at MoMA was a triennial that was dominated by solipsistic photographers who don't venture far from their bedrooms, their bookcases or the computers on their desks.
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"I wanted to explore the impact other people's actions—from affairs to murdering other people—have on the ones closest to them, as we still live in a very solipsistic society," Houang says of inspiration for the video.
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Frank's a classic Baby Boomer archetype—solipsistic, self-indulgent, and somewhat entitled—but also a good guy to have a beer with, a solid conversationalist, and someone who enjoys his easygoing existence, or at least he appears to.
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It is as if she is using painterly outputs as inputs in an ongoing, solipsistic process of (re)producing her Art-as-Art, in the vein of Ad Reinhardt, rather than reflecting the physical space of natural fields.
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In accepting a citation for excellence in reviewing, the book critic Michelle Dean urged her fellow writers not to become complacent about politics or lapse into solipsistic, navel-gazing work that fails to engage with pressing social issues.
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These sections and others feel heavy and solipsistic, more about the performers celebrating what they could accomplish through mime (see, not just for walking down pretend stairs anymore!) and less about nuanced explorations of the topics at hand.
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Here's what Pride and Prometheus made me realize: The Creature in Frankenstein and the plain sister in Pride and Prejudice, Mary Bennett, are two of the most lonely and two of the most solipsistic characters in the Western canon.
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Heartworms is as summary and solipsistic as The Shins have ever been (Pitchfork gave it a 7.6, in case you're wondering), and The Tourist (7.5) is as weird and theatrical as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have ever been.
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Mary and the Creature eventually meet, and that's where Pride and Prometheus really begins to sing: It's surprisingly touching to witness two of the loneliest and most solipsistic people in literature meet and see their own dark reflections in one another.
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Her lyrics are often abstract, but in the misty abstractions of her compositions—which are based both in her background in free improv and jazz saxophone—she strikes an unlikely balance between childlike glee, solipsistic silence, creeping melancholia, and anxious chaos.
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If, in the profoundly solipsistic age of social media, each of us is definable according to what we consume, then assemble the names and labels listed above and you have the makings of an algorithm whose endpoint is Luka Sabbat.
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It wasn't that I no longer saw myself in Sasha, it was that I hated the parts of myself I saw in her: perpetually reclining into a solipsistic relationship to her own affliction, as if leaning back onto a fainting couch.
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In fact, this was the moral of Alma and Esperanza's Tragic Quest: that these two girls, bestowed with magical powers unprecedented in the history of humanity, decided to ignore the greater good and focused on their own solipsistic journey for completion.
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Other Ashby films also deal with solipsistic illusions: In "Being There" (on Saturday), Peter Sellers plays a gardener who is forced out of his home, which he had never ventured beyond, only to become the talk of Washington and the nation.
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Even at its most solipsistic, autofiction generally reached outward as it looked inward, and this was irresistible, the belief that small could be large, that life contained grace notes of heroism, that there could be something universal in our individual experiences.
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In the realm of art, it can mean getting so carried away by the grand design of your vision that you fail to realize that it's motivated by something a bit solipsistic, a mirror of your unique prison of pain.
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" Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, in an example of solipsistic logic, said in his 1861 Cornerstone Speech, "They assume that the negro is equal, and hence conclude that he is entitled to equal privileges and rights with the white man.
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How much permission it gives me to be a total, solipsistic asshole: the lone survivor type (ok, there are a couple of other survivors, but I need not interact with them in terribly complex ways or deal with the politics of survival).
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While funny, these layers of identity are how Cottingham and company queer their criticism of the Rolling Stones, revisiting Mick Jagger's patent rituals and idiosyncrasies as a strange, solipsistic Oedipal complex — one that only a man could perform without receiving licentious condemnations.
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This is not to say that I think the future is going to be made by an army of Amys—she is, after all, a white woman of privilege whose solipsistic search for meaning causes her to steamroller everyone else in her path.
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If you took the basic traits people are drawn to in Drake's music—the murky sonics, the comfortable blend of rapping and singing, the intensely solipsistic emotional gravity—while siphoning out the personality and amplifying the pettiness, you would get Bryson Tiller, a.k.a.
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In Basel, turning the corner and discovering the black oily-looking ink with pink champagne painting-machine/painting "The Lovers" (1991) — and approaching its techno-lovers in flagrante delicto — lifts both sex and painting preconceptions out of their superfluous state of solipsistic sluggishness.
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Read another way, it's solipsistic, a reminder that the place of the man is to create art as the poet, and the place of the woman is to inspire art as the muse, reflecting the man's thoughts back to him rather than having her own.
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In his disdain for science, in the subjectivity of his worldview, in his radically solipsistic moral relativism (things are good or bad as they relate to him), he is a postmodern hero par excellence, Derrida with a funny haircut and a thousand-dollar suit.
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For many Americans, especially non-Christians, the thought that Christian morality is a useful guide to much of anything these days is risible, particularly since so many evangelicals have thrown in their lot with a relentlessly solipsistic American president who bullies, boasts and sneers.
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Turning the corner and discovering the lovers in flagrante delicto, and approaching this enormous spray-drip piece for a better look creates a jolt of self-conscious connection/disconnection that lifts both sex and painting out of their superfluous state of sluggish, solipsistic melancholia.
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"Mothers" follows the same arc, arguing for the radical potentialities in motherhood, how women's initiation into the relentless, often invisible labor of caretaking produces not the solipsistic, bourgeois creature of myth but something close to the ideal citizen — more responsive to the community and naturally inclusive.
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Psychoanalytic theory at this point in history seems to understand that our deepest, most embedded ideas about what it means to be good originate in our family of origin and even in the best case scenarios those families of origin can be pretty solipsistic little microcosms. Right.
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Rap is built on these kinds of show-offy bars—I spent the weekend listening to A Tribe Called Quest, and R.I.P. Phife, a master of the form—but, in the post-Drake era, the genre is generally too solipsistic to have this kind of focus.
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Yes, there's the breathing that begins it and the shots of a sweet liqueur (smells like rubbing alcohol, tastes like lemon Pledge) distributed in the middle, but most of the solipsistic interaction is between performer and video, which might, with just a little more articulation be the point.
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Prince very definitely embodied that classical conception of genius: He was a relentlessly enigmatic, almost solipsistic figure who crafted widely-acknowledged masterpieces, particularly his slate of classic albums including 221's Prince, 224's Dirty Mind, 27's Controversy, 1982's 1999, 1984's Purple Rain, and 1988's Sign o' the Times.
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These inevitably solipsistic campaigns in which players had no choice but to achieve for themselves, are worth cherishing in the same sense that you might be able to imagine the taste of a very fine wine that was poured into Roman amphorae, loaded onto a ship, and then sunk to the bottom of the Mediterranean.
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And so he couldn't resist, in front of the world, going off on a solipsistic ramble about "Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's emails" and Democratic 'servers.
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My solipsistic authorial habits would seem to feed into a common misconception about writing, which is that it is merely a conduit for the writer's interiority, and that a good writer—or even just a capable one—possesses the skills to transfer the contents of that interiority onto the page with as little loss as possible.
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"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" may start off sounding like one of those coy, solipsistic exercises that put everything in little ironic quote marks, but it quickly becomes a virtuosic piece of writing, a big, daring, manic-depressive stew of a book that noisily announces the debut of a talented — yes, staggeringly talented new writer.
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