I’ve written before about late capitalism and the labor-intensive maintenance of the self. But this
One of the best, most uncanny museum selfies we’ve ever seen #poseMW pic.twitter.com/VCxaTuEVft
— ALVA (@alva_uk) March 29, 2015
… this is some next. level. ish. What labor is necessary when the image precedes the self? What recognition is possible, qua Lacan, when there is a genealogy of the image but no possibility of dialectical inversion?
Can there be a selfie with no self?