The business of life is the acquisition of memories comments on the mechanism of the creation of the contemporary subject’s autonomy, while critically engaging with the increasingly nebulous concept of subjectivity within a confessional, online, twenty-first century landscape. Aspects of Jaye Early's video practice can be characterised by the temporary autonomous zones of self-doubt, or ‘wasted’ labour, that Boris Groys maintains should be the aim of contemporary art today. In other words, contemporary art practice should aim to weigh out options, hesitate, and question without necessarily giving answers. Early's video work embodies this contemporary malaise. As the boundaries between private/public space and spheres become increasingly problematised within our confessional society (e.g. Instagram and Facebook, the blogosphere), his work suggests that contemporary confessional video art can give voice to displaced digital subjectivities to present a more complex politics of self.