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#selfie – Imag(in)ing the Self in Digital Media#selfie – Imag(in)ing the Self in Digital Media
University of Marburg (Germany), 23-24 April 2015University of Marburg (Germany), 23-24 April 2015
About the anti-figurativeness of #selfieAbout the anti-figurativeness of #selfie
Giacomo Di Foggia
giacomo.difoggia3@unibo.it
@giacomodifoggia
https://unibo.academia.edu/GiacomoDiFoggia
“It's a story about
community and
collaboration […] about
the many wresting
power from the few
and helping one
another for nothing
and how that will not
only change the world,
but also change the
way the world
changes.” Lev
Grossman, Time
magazine, December
16, 2006.
“It's a story about
community and
collaboration […] about
the many wresting
power from the few
and helping one
another for nothing
and how that will not
only change the world,
but also change the
way the world
changes.” Lev
Grossman, Time
magazine, December
16, 2006.
Horning R. (2014) “Selfies without the self”, [online], 23 November
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/marginal-utility/selfies-without-the-self/
People take #selfies in order not to surrender to contemporary medialityPeople take #selfies in order not to surrender to contemporary mediality
to sayto say “Here I am! I am here too! I am part of it too!”“Here I am! I am here too! I am part of it too!”
Villa F. (ed) (2013) Vite Impersonali.
Autoritrattistica e Medialità,
Cosenza: Luigi Pellegrini Editore
“Mediality develops antibodies to avoid forms of betrayal, estrangement
and definitive break. [...] Mediality then becomes mode and attitude,
habitus of cohabitation, mentality, experiential tension that holds
together what is lived and media, by marking off escape routes from
failure, fear and by developing comforting formulas defined not only by
the important but simple being friendly.”
anteante
ντίἀντίἀ
ντίἀντίἀ
anteante
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About the anti-figurativeness of #selfie

  • 1. #selfie – Imag(in)ing the Self in Digital Media#selfie – Imag(in)ing the Self in Digital Media University of Marburg (Germany), 23-24 April 2015University of Marburg (Germany), 23-24 April 2015 About the anti-figurativeness of #selfieAbout the anti-figurativeness of #selfie Giacomo Di Foggia giacomo.difoggia3@unibo.it @giacomodifoggia https://unibo.academia.edu/GiacomoDiFoggia
  • 2.
  • 3. “It's a story about community and collaboration […] about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.” Lev Grossman, Time magazine, December 16, 2006.
  • 4. “It's a story about community and collaboration […] about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.” Lev Grossman, Time magazine, December 16, 2006.
  • 5. Horning R. (2014) “Selfies without the self”, [online], 23 November http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/marginal-utility/selfies-without-the-self/
  • 6. People take #selfies in order not to surrender to contemporary medialityPeople take #selfies in order not to surrender to contemporary mediality to sayto say “Here I am! I am here too! I am part of it too!”“Here I am! I am here too! I am part of it too!”
  • 7. Villa F. (ed) (2013) Vite Impersonali. Autoritrattistica e Medialità, Cosenza: Luigi Pellegrini Editore “Mediality develops antibodies to avoid forms of betrayal, estrangement and definitive break. [...] Mediality then becomes mode and attitude, habitus of cohabitation, mentality, experiential tension that holds together what is lived and media, by marking off escape routes from failure, fear and by developing comforting formulas defined not only by the important but simple being friendly.”
  • 8.
  • 9.
  • 10.
  • 11.
  • 12.
  • 13.