{"id":14808,"date":"2020-12-04T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T23:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=14808"},"modified":"2020-12-04T18:25:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T23:25:02","slug":"emmas-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/12\/04\/emmas-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma&#8217;s Ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14808-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/AA-4-Emmas-Ego_mixdown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/AA-4-Emmas-Ego_mixdown.mp3\">http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/AA-4-Emmas-Ego_mixdown.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>One of the reasons I love the movie\u00a0<em>Emma<\/em> is because it&#8217;s about a rich, arrogant brat who thinks she&#8217;s better than other people and knows what&#8217;s better for their own lives than they know for themselves. But the thing is, Emma thinks that she&#8217;s doing a great favor to everyone else. Even in her manipulation, she sees no fault. And yes, the white woman, Karen-complex doesn&#8217;t escape me&#8211; it&#8217;s glaring, actually&#8211; but I think in some ways I&#8217;ve been prey to this as well. And it&#8217;s this &#8220;kindness&#8221; motivated by selfishness that ends up being more destructive than good old-fashioned cruelty could ever be. But I think there is such a thing as real kindness&#8211; if only we can peel back layers of ego and confront our own performativity.<\/p>\n<p>Music for this episode is from the beautiful Emma (2020) soundtrack by Isobel Waller-Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I love the movie\u00a0Emma is because it&#8217;s about a rich, arrogant brat who thinks she&#8217;s better than other people and knows what&#8217;s better for their own lives than they know for themselves. But the thing is, Emma thinks that she&#8217;s doing a great favor to everyone else. Even in her manipulation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2194,"featured_media":13982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14812,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions\/14812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}