In her obituary for dancer and choreographer Ann Reinking, Helen Shaw mentions that "Reinking actually had to audition for the role of herself in All That Jazz, Bob Fosse’s 1979 semi-autobiographical film about a Broadway choreographer (played by Roy Scheider) stretching himself too thin." This immediately struck me as a metaphor for basically everything I tend to write about: the production of the self, "authenticity" as an alibi, identity reified as capital, mediation as a mode of production, reality TV and social media as ideological operating systems or means of formatting everyday life, and so on and so on.