Sun 20 September
10:30am
Venue: Hat
Event [86]

Talks

The Philosophy and the Dangers of Fame

Jordan Stephens, Sarah Wilson
Few know the gap between public image and private reality like Jordan Stephens. As one half of the hip-hop duo Rizzle Kicks and a bestselling author, he found fame young and has spoken openly about the pressures of performing a version of himself to the world. But his experience raises a question that now faces us all in the age of the curated online profile: if we are always performing a self, is there a "true" self underneath? Joined by Sarah Wilson, multi-New York Times bestselling author and social philosopher, Stephens asks whether a true self exists beneath the performance, or whether we are only ever the roles we play.

"Brutally honest as well as poetic." – Dolly Alderton

"Insightful and fiercely intelligent." – Julia Zemiro
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