1st Edition

The Selfie, Temporality, and Contemporary Photography

By Claire Raymond Copyright 2021
188 Pages 16 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 16 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 16 Color & 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Dreaming the Self: Selfie Practice, Temporality, and Artificial Intelligence 2. The Capitalist Affect 3. Embodied Self: Temporality, Ontology, Mortality 4. Numbering Identity: The Algorithmic Self 5. Archive, Memory, Identity 6. Selfie-as-Mask 7. Celebrity Self-Fashioning 8. Self-Portrait Performance

Biography

    Claire Raymond is a visiting research associate at Princeton University and a visiting scholar with the department of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Francesca Woodman’s Dark Gaze: The Diazotypes and Other Late Works; Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics; Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South; and Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime. Her research focuses on aesthetics, poetics, and the intersections of cultural trauma and representation.