The Kardashians and the fetish of private life

Ricardo P. Carvalho
5 min readFeb 5, 2021

Curating our own image to look like a real one

Who doesn’t love a good reality TV show? Put your hands in the air!

Right. Now, why do you love it so much? What is so attracting in watching other people’s intimate lives? You certainly have heard of the Kardashians and I’m pretty sure you can list the names of three of them. Although the bad reviews, the…

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Ricardo P. Carvalho

I am the son of Freud, Maria Callas and postmodernism. Žižek is my grandfather.