unself-conscious

But TV, of course, is performative, not illustrative; it provides only the commercially stylized illusion of reality, “the fantasy that we’re transcending privacy and feeding on unself-conscious human activity,” as Wallace put it.

Like her work, she is unself-conscious and brilliant, but in a way that you don’t always recognize as brilliant because of how open and accessible she is.

So McRae made a vow to get back to the unself-conscious, physically exuberant performer she’d grown up as.

Is it even possible to exist, never mind act, in an unself-conscious manner anymore?

She is genuinely unself-conscious, which is not the same thing at all.