An interrogation of our digital selves, braiding cultural criticism, memoir, and narrative musings into an exploration of identity, girlhood, media, tech, nature from a writer, artist, and influencer.
Arata captures the physicality of being online with a...deft touch ... Makes the case that the most fascinating way to analyze that excess — perhaps one of the only ways to be honest about it — is to talk about exactly what’s not there.
Fresh, intelligent ... Above all, Arata reminds us, online life is a unique form of performance art. Her attempts to both embrace it and critique it with a cool and distanced eye make for intriguing and not always comfortable reading, as we glimpse our own reflections in the mirror of the online world she presents to us.