What the hell is peep culture?
Well my argument is that we’re moving from a pop to a peep culture. Pop (popular) culture was all about getting a mass audience to spend their entertainment and leisure time watching a handful of supposedly mega-talented performers. In peep, instead of watching that handful of anointed performers, we are watching each other. Peep culture is a mass media culture in which we spend our leisure/entertainment time watching each other go about our ‘regular’ lives, rather than watching performers. What inspired you to delve into the nature of peep? After I wrote my previous nonfiction book Hello, I’m Special I realized that I had only just explored the surface of the move to a conformist individuality in which everyone is perpetually selling him or her self as an exciting, vibrant rebellious product worthy of consumption. I wanted to go further. The rise of everything from blogs to Facebook to Twitter provided inspiration. Why do you think modern culture has adopted and internalized scopofili
