#ireality

speaking at Improving Reality 2014: Visibility Is a Trap today. i'll be doing a lightning round speeding through some of my thoughts on how we can use Foucault's famous declaration to examine the trappings of social media visibility. if you want to read more in-depth about what i'll say, here are some links:

on social media providing a "documentary vision", fixating the present as always a potential future past

and how temporary social media fights against this common, nostalgic gaze

on social media realizing Foucault's worry in The History Of Sexuality of making us too fixated on our identities, on our selves as selves, and rethinking social media away from the profile, and how visibility doesn't need to be just trapping, but also pleasurable