What Do You Really Look Like to Other People?
before you watch, ask yourself what exactly you think you’ll see. Close your eyes and form a vivid, internal movie of how you think you will look.
Ellen Hendriksen • How to Be Yourself
“I think this is all fairly simple: every three-dimensional being doubles himself twice—reflecting himself outwardly and inwardly. Both reflections are untrue: the cold, flat likeness returned by the looking glass is untrue because it is less than three-dimensional; the face’s other reflection, cast inward, flowing along nerves to the brain and com
... See moreSigizmund Krzhizhanovsky • The Letter Killers Club (New York Review Books Classics)
have noticed that people who take and post selfies on the internet tend to choose photos from the same angle and showing the same expression. I think we must choose the photos that look most like our self-image; that self-image is then reinforced by the photos.
Elisa Gabbert • The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
There are plenty of well-documented reasons to distrust Instagram — the platform where one is never not branding, never not making Facebook money, never not giving Facebook one’s data — but most unnerving are the ways in which it has led me to distrust myself. After countless adventures through the black hole, my propensity to share, perform, and e... See more
Tavi Gevinson • Who Would Tavi Gevinson Be Without Instagram?
