Selfie Aesthetics
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Selfie Aesthetics

Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art

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Selfie Aesthetics

Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art

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In Selfie Aesthetics Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore transition, selfhood, and relationality. Morse contends that rather than being understood as shallow emblems of a narcissistic age, selfies can produce politically meaningful encounters between creators and viewers. Through close readings of selfies and other digital artworks by trans feminist artists, Morse details a set of formal strategies they call selfie aesthetics: doubling, improvisation, seriality, and nonlinear temporality. Morse traces these strategies in the work of Zackary Drucker, Vivek Shraya, Tourmaline, Alok Vaid-Menon, Zinnia Jones, and Natalie Wynn, showing how these artists present improvisational identities and new modes of performative resistance by conveying the materialities of trans life. Morse shows how the interaction between selfie creators and viewers constructs collective modes of being and belonging in ways that envision trans feminist futures. By demonstrating the aesthetic depth and political potential of selfie creation, distribution, and reception, Morse deepens understandings of gender performativity and trans experience.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2022
ISBN
9781478022756
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Photography

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Prologue: The Monster by the Pool
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Doubling
  7. Gender Performatives and Selfie Improvisatives
  8. Visibility Politics and Selfie Seriality
  9. Selfie Time(lines)
  10. Trans Feminist Futures
  11. Coda
  12. Notes
  13. Selected Bibliography
  14. Index