The Selfie, Temporality, and Contemporary Photography

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