Selfie: o autorretrato do sujeito contemporâneo

Social networks are sites for the exhibition of amateur photography, and a field for artistic experimentation. They are also apparatus that impact subjectivity and democracy, benefiting interests of neoliberalism. Moreover, they have generated a new chapter in the history of photography, the selfie,...

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Autor: Braga, Paula
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Repositorio:ARS (São Paulo. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.usp.br:article/180880
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.usp.br/ars/article/view/180880
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fotografía
Selfi
Neoliberalismo
Democracia
Subjetividad
Fotografia
Selfie
Subjetividade
Photography
Neoliberalism
Democracy
Subjectivity
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Sumario:Social networks are sites for the exhibition of amateur photography, and a field for artistic experimentation. They are also apparatus that impact subjectivity and democracy, benefiting interests of neoliberalism. Moreover, they have generated a new chapter in the history of photography, the selfie, which demands an interdisciplinary methodology to be understood. This article proposes that the selfie refers to self-objectification. It investigates this hypothesis by departing from the theory of photography developed by Philippe Dubois, concepts from psychoanalysis, and diagnostics issued by Achille Mbembe and Giorgio Agamben. Last, the article analyses the use of the selfie by the artists Amalia Ulman, Aleta Valente and Cindy Sherman, discussing the limits of networks as a site for art.