ABSTRACT

This article explores the legacy of Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi’s germinal 2010 article, ‘A Trust Betrayed’, which provided a hugely generative framework for considering the politics of emotion exemplified in celebrity culture. Focusing on the relational politics of affective revelation, Nunn and Biressi identified the emotional labour of celebrity individuality underpinned by the continual work of self-narrativisation. I briefly highlight the continuing generative elements of this framework in a context of highly mediated public individuality. Digital culture has become even more crucial to the circulation of celebrity, as well as reinforcing celebritised norms of self-presentation in everyday contexts. Biressi and Nunn’s framework of celebrity emotional labour raises important questions about the continuing place of personality on the political terrain of popular culture, and how authenticity, legitimacy and ‘relatability’ in the ascent of social media culture, may be unequally attributed in terms of gender, class and race. In the context of intensifying social inequality and neoliberal ‘commonsense’, I suggest Biressi and Nunn’s framework continues to give us much to consider in terms of self-revelation as an unequally distributed resource of identity.

摘要

本文探讨了希瑟·纳恩（Heather Nunn）和安妮塔·比雷斯西（Anita Biressi）在2010年的创始文章“信任背叛”的传承，该文章为思考名人文化中的情感政治提供了巨大的生成框架。Nunn和Biressi着眼于情感揭示的关系政治，确定了以自我叙事的持续工作为基础的名人个性的情感劳动。我简要强调了在高度调解的公众个性背景下该框架的持续生成要素。数字文化对于名人流传以及在日常情况下强化名人表达的自我表现规范变得至关重要。Biressi和Nunn的名人情感劳动框架提出了以下重要问题：人格在流行文化的政治领域中的持续地位，以及在社交媒体文化中如何将真实性，合法性和“相对性”归因于性别，阶级和种族。在社会不平等加剧和新自由主义的“常识”的背景下，我认为，比雷斯里和纳恩的框架继续使我们更多地考虑将自我揭示作为一种不平等分布的身份资源。