This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal episteme of selfie practice.
Claire Raymond investigates how the selfie’s involvement with time and self emerges from capitalist ideologies of identity and time. The book leverages theories from Katharina Pistor, Jacques Lacan, Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson, and Hans Belting to explore the ways in which the selfie imposes a dominant ideology on subjectivity by manipulating the affect of time. The selfie is understood in contrast to the self-portrait. Artists discussed include James Tylor, Shelley Niro, Ellen Carey, Graham MacIndoe, and LaToya Ruby Frazier.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in visual culture, history of photography, and critical theory. It will also appeal to scholars of philosophy and, in particular, of the intersection of aesthetic theory and theories of ontology, epistemology, and temporality.
Author(s): Claire Raymond
Series: Routledge History of Photography
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 188
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1 Dreaming the Self
Selfie Practice, Temporality, and Artificial Intelligence
Grift Time
The Emptiness of Time
Melancholy Time
A New Look
Transference
Time’s Mirror
Susan Sontag’s Cave
There Is No Outside the “Selfie”
Ghosts in the Social Media Machine
Notes
2 The Capitalist Affect
Capitalist Temporality
The Wound of the Real
Weberian Time
Abstract Selfie
Self on the Shelf
Girls Talk
Derivative Self
Keep Circling
The Image of Transport
Getting and Spending
Exchanging Myself
Weber Rides Again
Notes
3 Embodied Self
Temporality, Ontology, Mortality
Imaginary Lives
Taking Stock
Haunted Selves
Clean Hands
Wasted Selves
Choosing Time
Gaps of Time
Closed Sets
Haunting Time
Frame of Self
Polaroid Redux
Babysitting Capitalism
Selling Time
Bureaucratic Self
Inocula
Sublime Selfie
Disappearing Acts
Aporias
Goth Self
Global Warming, Selfie Style
Notes
4 Numbering Identity
The Algorithmic Self
Seeing Together
Beyond the Text
Prize Selves
Judging Time
Nowhere Else to Go: Selfie as Limit Function
Bureaucracy Online
Everyday Data
Mutatis Mutandis
Immortal Digital
Selfie Ex Nihilo
The Empty Mirror
Making the Cut
Cut for Time
Performances
Aesthetic Stillness, Selfie as Flow
Suppressing Time, by the Numbers
Notes
5 Archive, Memory, Identity
Originals
Mirroring
Delays, Lapses
Digitalia
Mnemonic Structures
The Internet Loves You
Back to Plato’s Cave
Gathering Wool
Object Worlds
Browsing the Past Tense
Archiving Perception
Digital Doll House
The Persistence of Time59
Big Tech and the Archive
Highs and Lows of Selfie Life
Submerging the Memory Palace
Notes
6 Selfie-as-Mask
Lost-and-Found Self
Losing Face
Copy Cat
Numb Personae
Re-Touching
Coin a Face
Symbolic Violence
The Webs between Us
Masking Time
Computer-Generated Selfie
Leviathan
Face, Mask, and Selfie in Crisis43
Masked
Narcissus, Afterward
Uncanny Selves
Time We Have Wasted
Whom Do I Haunt? Beyond the Mask
Blindness and Insight
The Fractured Mask
Notes
7 Celebrity Self-Fashioning
Time and the Image
Insta-Frame
Blue Eye
New Pages: Magazine Selfies
After Agnes
Crossing Boundaries
Friendship and the Faux-Gift Economy
Passing On Time
Heterotopia
Film Stills
Amazon Prime
Bureaucratic Celebrity
Selfies to the Death
Gothic Selfie
Trophy Self
Soft Violence in Social Media
No There There
Notes
8 Self-Portrait Performance
Eternal Return
In an Inherited Mirror
Film Vernacular
What Is Original?
The Sacrificial Self
Shoes, Table, Family
Lost-and-Found
The Fold, the Seam
Alone
Notes
Index
