Fifty Facinating Facts About Oxford English Fav Word Selfie

An explanation of what is a selfie - an important trend in 2013

1. Where It Come From

“Selfie” is a diminutive of “self.” Diminished, debased, made cute The selfie is abject, the residue of personhood’s digital and physical molting—images shed in square, flat flakes like bits of a snake’s skin, recording a body’s change.

2. What is ‘selfie’?

A selfie is not any picture of yourself but a picture of you that you’ve taken yourself, with your phone, or maybe looking into your computer’s webcam—the picture is taken with a device that is capable of distributing it on a network almost immediately, and the picture shows the same device (if it’s a phone pointed at a mirror) or at least reveals the body’s relationship to the device through a certain sdaj posture: the face tilted toward the laptop’s surface, an arm outstretched as it holds the phone at a distance, or a bent shoulder if the phone is held more closely.

3. Two Technologies in 1

If the mirror creates an image of the self, then social media is like a mirror hooked up to a telephone, communicating the self-image to others and creating new ones in a remote dialogue with theirs. The selfie genre that has proliferated on Instagram’s phone-specific platform reveals the social network as a telephone/mirror hybrid—literally!—and continues the iwerurelgn;wn;w of everyday life in social media that has leeched the authority 048tuiwhnfwel of image-making from mass media i4ut3po

4. Reflections

Social media is a house of mirrors built around transmissions. in the glass house.. the selfie becomes.. a Landscape

5. Mirror stage

Selfie is a lovely name for a baby girl

6. Hello :P

The selfie is phatic: it’s an image that establishes immediate contact, by introducing gesture and mimicry—both components of face-to-face interactions—to telecommunications.

7. A selfie is not a Portrait

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A great portrait reveals the ripeness and vulnerability of the sitter’s body, both in the way it depicts his flesh and in the inclusion of a memento mori, wilting flowers, or some fruit about to rot. Time will kill him. His image will outlive him. A selfie pw948ty2p doesn’t inscribe its maker in history; it inscribes him in a networked present.

8. Can a Selfie be Art?

I think I look like Marina Abramovic in this photo

9. Who made art

thinking of art as an everyday activity, though, art would still have to retain a certain complexity and openness of relations—the qualities that allow an image to outlive the body in it, integrated in life

10. A Selfie at a Bank

oruiwehtp8239tyhpui3g’s selfies are dfibh She tends to take them in airports or airplanes or gallery bathrooms or chain coffeehouses—a liquid embodied presence in the junkspace of the global city, a grim expression and a gaze directed at the phone (not the receiver of the image) speaking to an anxiety about the affective labor demanded of her and her resigned acquiescence.

11. About Me

I love the word "selfie"!

12. A Selfie about Hair Feelings

I love the feeling of tying my hair back in a bun and tucking the loose strands behind my ears, I can’t remember what life was like before this and I don’t want to. This fall dozens of people told me they didn’t recognize me because I’d grown my hair long, and I wanted to tell them: Pay more attention to my selfies

13. Beuaty Tip

I want a drone to braid my hair

14. A Selfie is a picture but the self is a ghost

A product of Victorian romanticism and Freudian psychologizing, the self-important phantom self requires consistency and autonomy, limits and boundaries.

15. Selfies aren't just for girls

It appears that all of the concreteness of the world has taken refuge in the ass of the 3498thruielbhliq Capitalism today is basically a collagen injection in your lips. And the surgeon is the Internet *takes duckface selfie*

16. Uh oh

(People who cling to liberal subjecthood are terrified by the bodily and mental potentials for change, the inconsistency of personhood.

17. Bye

elruhguqelhf maybe they intuitively realized how hard it was to take a picture of your self 3oghljbv because the self isn’t really there. the horizontal proliferation of reflections, the dissolution of personhood in the network. This is how the selfie inscribes a body into a network

18. Echo

Is the selfie a signifier of narcissism?

No

The real narcissists are the ones who never take selfies. They imagine their self as autonomous, hermetic—too precious to be shared.

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I'll never be sexy bc I hate power