The Performative Male: beyond the show of romanticized fragility
Baggy jeans, an Adelphi Edizioni book in hand, a slouched posture and a matcha latte resting on a small table: this is the most debated aesthetic of recent months, born and amplified especially on social media through memes and viral trends. Behind the so-called “performative male” lies the drama of contemporary relationships: liquidity (cf. Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Life , 2005), fragility that is not truly accepted, simulated identities (cf. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday...