Intimate Economies: PostSecret and the Affect of Confession

• DOI: 10.1353/bio.2011.0000
• Publication Date: 2012-02-22T22:59:47Z
• Authors: Anna Poletti
• Keywords: 0602 languages and literature; 06 humanities and the arts; Language and Linguistics

This article argues that the scale and success of the PostSecret project evidences the continuing influence of confession in contemporary autobiography. It analyzes the importance of materiality as a signifier of authenticity in a participatory media project that functions as an intimate public by coaxing life writing texts and detaching them from their authorial subjects.