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James Heartfield: What Happened to Agency?

The last in a series of talks on 'What Does It Mean To Be Human?' held at The Tetley in Leeds. James Heartfield, author of The Death of the Subject Explained, reflects on human agency. Nowadays everyone is obsessed with themselves, Heartfield argues. People take life-affirming journeys and courses in self-discovery, cover themselves in tattoos, and talk about little else - the fear is that we are a selfish society, only interested in number one. But the preoccupation with the Self is a clue that the modern sense of identity is weak, not strong. We are a long way from the assertive self-confident individual of the eighteenth century, or the collective struggles of the nineteenth century. The contemporary idea of Self is fundamentally precarious, unsure of its goals, and without a sense of its mission in the world. www.leedssalon.org.uk