The ubiquity of the confessional mode is some weird accidental offspring of 60's and 70's confessional poetry and New Journalism. Its history also includes St. Augustine and Rousseau’s Confessions but this current incarnation, whether the exposed female author or the enigmatic male writer, is nothing more than gossip…

This isn’t what Posthuman means. Rovell is a simplistic reader of what is Humanist thought where a sovereign self can determine his or her own value in a free market. Posthuman thought is derived from Marx where the self is a subject determined by forces both external and prior to him or her. Correcting a lapse in…