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“Our economic, cultural, and personal lives are suffused with the notion that we can and should transform ourselves into modern-day deities, simultaneously living works of art to be admired by others and ingeniously productive economic machines.”

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Book:Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

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