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Selfie Aesthetics Nicole Erin Morse

Selfie Aesthetics By Nicole Erin Morse

Selfie Aesthetics by Nicole Erin Morse


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Summary

Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans women feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore how selfies produce politically meaningful encounters between creators and viewers in ways that envision trans feminist futures.

Selfie Aesthetics Summary

Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art by Nicole Erin Morse

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.

Selfie Aesthetics Reviews

"Emphasizing how the selfie expresses and creates relations of various kinds, Selfie Aesthetics is a theoretically sophisticated addition to a body of scholarship that has increasingly, over the last decade, emphasized the selfie as a set of social practices." -- Alix Beeston * Journal of American Studies *
"Morses book not only expands upon the theoretical importance of trans selfies but is a project of political necessity in its insistence that trans lives must, without equivocation, translate into tenable futures where security and equality can be affirmed." -- Francesca Romeo * Film Quarterly *
"Arriving on the scene at a moment of politically charged vitriol aimed towards trans people, Morses book presents a prescient intervention for reckoning with the materiality of the now as well as the trans futures to come. . . . By focusing on the formal techniques through which selfies are realized, Morse urges viewers to zoom in on the quotidian, to remain open to the possibilities hidden beneath algorithmic and capitalistic demands, and to critically examine the seemingly fixed and determined capacities of self-representation, self-reflexivity and self-constitution." -- Drew Gonzales * Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty *

About Nicole Erin Morse

Nicole Erin Morse is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Table of Contents

Prologue The Monster by the Pool vii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
1. Doubling 23
2. Gender Performatives and Selfie Improvisatives 50
3. Visibility Politics and Selfie Seriality 74
4. Selfie Time(lines) 96
5. Trans Feminist Futures 115
Coda 136
Notes 139
Selected Bibliography 163
Index 175

Additional information

GOR013886065
9781478018148
1478018143
Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art by Nicole Erin Morse
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Duke University Press
2022-04-22
200
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