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Je selfie donc je suis | Elsa GODART | TEDxAix


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hello i will talk to you about a subject

which is particularly important to me

and whose philosophers ultimately did not

not used to dealing with this subject this is

the self is here it does not surprise me

first reaction first smile

we hear a lot of prejudices around

the issue of the IMFC selphy salt

finally it’s just a matter of

narcissism

these are ego’s have steps they

take a picture of the story for me

started a little bit

different a priori I was not

predestined to talk about the cmfi I did

a thesis in metaphysics see until

analysts a second sentence and that’s

the salt girl was not obvious

during a party at a friend’s house

philosopher I want to clarify the

philosophers do not always have games

who are very funny

however, during this evening

throws a challenge to everyone

this challenge what is your point of madness

so since I’m here that list

also and that madness it knows me a

I think a little bit before

reply

but before I can go out

a sentence this friend throws me canvas I

know what your point of madness is

for point of madness there is only to see your

facebook page these are the girl wings I

I’m stung

I am very surprised how is it

that an end attitude a gesture that me

seems completely banal and innocuous

can arouse so much interest see

so much emotion

since I answered him in 250 pages

you will find all their moreover

a year out eh yes my friends because

I discovered in a very short time

that behind the selphy a whole world

opened to thought and to

thinking what I would like

offer you briefly in ten minutes

which is a challenge for a

Toulon

it is precisely to be able to

give to feel to perceive in what this

behavior that is ultimately who has

embedded our habits in water and bone is

become iconic see symptomatic

metamorphoses of our

hypermodernity so what is

is that a selphy a selphy the term

appeared in 2002 on a forum

Australian it is composed of the term self

English which means less

but also sometimes being alone in 2013

he becomes the word of the year in the

oxford dictionaries in 2016

it integrates larousse dictionaries

and petitrobert now the daughter salt

has become unavoidable what is

so only one son is very simple

I love doing lectures that I

go out my cell phone so to that

girls it’s about taking oneself

even in photo and posted this photo

in the world the virtuality and more

usually on social networks

then the daughter salt could not be made

possible that when especially on our

smartphones

the rear camera was put in

place and then thereafter the camera

frontal in this it is the emblem of a

revealed of a techno revolution

scientists you already have

heard long spoken today

that is, when the

virtuality has entered our

daily

not only the virtuality but also

the impact of the image is strong from this

I noticed that we

attendtions to two changes of

fundamental paradigms

the first paradigm shift is

what I called the move to

nicks and nook hic and nunc in latin here

and now

thank you so what is this report from

here and now

well it’s as if our

representation of the time that

until then is done in three dimensions

past present and future were

folded to form a single

temporality which is that of the moment

click

I called it the immediate connectivity

our relationship to temporality and we

has heard little today

it’s a report to the emergency at the

precipitation

halts immediacy at all while

of course obviously the relationship to time

can not be understood sense the report

to space and there the same way

we got into a

representation of space in three

dimensions to a representation in

two dimensions what I called the

horizontal spatiality which is nothing else

than that of our screen is then

wonder of wonders that we

let’s recompose the 3d in a fake way

all a symbol than to recompose the

depth

first paradigm shift is so

this relation to time and space

second paradigm shift that’s

the one that binds us to the language you

know maybe since the Greeks and

especially since socrates our way

to apprehend the world of thinking

is based on something very

powerful since our west to

properly speaking root its base of

knowledge from that he

is the logo what is it that the

logos it’s a term that we can

translate by rational discourse

you find it in all sciences

psychology zoology the primate of the

rational speech

the primacy of a vision of the world that

would be based on rationality

but it seems to me that here too we

let’s see a metamorphosis

perhaps that I look forward there would be a

decline of this primacy of the logos in favor

of what I called the reign of nay

d’olonne what is garlic

olonne the image of simulacrum images

but combined 1 this modification of

our representations of time and

space is gym these pictures are of a

new genre since it is about image

ephemeral so we went back

in an era when we went from

logos with olonne garlic to worship

the ephemeral image and that’s not it

cat who would tell us the opposite

immediately an image is present and

that she is hunted by another then

our language should we say when we

could evoked with jean luc godard

in 2014

goodbye to language it seems like it’s about

this point there that the salt girl we

astonishes the latest indeed what is this

so what was a salt girls doing in

this world that one could evoke under the

form of a power and kramnik we

are surrounded on all sides

from the screen the images we make it what

is the place of the salt girl in such

context

as I said just now

is it just a crisis

narcissistic

it would be far too easy to reduce

the salt girl to this and if the only girl

was year to language and if the cmfi

announced by the power of the

photograph a new mode

expression

if the salt girl was a way

to establish a link of a new kind

with each other I draw your attention

on the fact that it is very rare that

send a saïfi to yourself

I have scheduled consultations if you

want at the end of dating and dicks

for those who are concerned

it is very rare indeed that we

is addressing a selphy to oneself

the self is there for the other

the self it to the eye of

the other

the self is a neo language up

present the photograph was a

immediate stop we are

contemporary from the moment she reaches

to the universality of a language and this

language bears a name this is the peak

speech or speech by the image

the pic speech very present on the

social networks whatsapp twitter

facebook very popular with young people

the peak speed this is the language that

image language these images

conversational is a language

globalized since they are based on

global news development

technologies without being a

universal language because it is not

always understood by all but he tends

to multiply it tends to spread

more and more we have to do so

with the salt girl has a nose to the language to

a pic speech then you could you

actually say very well the self there

is a new language

certainly but what about this

question of me me me I because it is we

agrees

to realize a selphy is to present oneself

in the image is displayed in

the image is to photograph either in

the image

even though it would be

address it to the other then I would like to

remember a little story that goes

without doubt

you talk a lot it’s history

of a young man of 16 years old this young

man the particularity of having a lot

bad to love

but one day he is caught by the assaults

with one hand what is called echoes but

the latter is unable to

convey her feelings since she

is doomed to repeat everything

that she hears in this despair not the

nymph echoes eventually disappear and

this young man named Narcissus is

find themselves delivered to his loneliness

one day while he is hunting he

fall in a swoon in front of a superb

landscape and the quickdraw his smartphone and

take the selphy the saïfi of the century

you will agree

we still talk about the cmfi of narcissus

of course then storytelling

ego trip we feel that the

month and overexposed genuine

blisters in 2d obviously happening

our time to exist to still want

no longer exist on social networks

exist and is not enough anymore

still be able to sell

of course is this queen of salt

branding the self promotion you the

know it’s also the goddess of salt

kim kardashian kim kardashian girl and

loft n2 this representation the one

fiq which one could say actually

that she is extremely narcissistic

but let them son is far from

to be only the question of kim

kardashian and you can not put on

the same plan the selphy that we can

find for example that of space

i do not know if you saw him selphy

from barack obama

the salt daughter of the queen of england the

cmfi the salt museum daughter who is

devoted to this subject to shackle

in the same way as the girl salts

which are taken in true act of

resistance

with this famous Chinese artist ai weiwei

all the girl salts are not at

put on the same plane a selphy

tourist does not tell the same

story that salt girl who comes

replace autographs

the self is a neo language it would be

painful damage to reduce it to a

question of narcissism

and I like to remind here that the

narcissism is necessary he is a

moment of normal development of the subject

without narcissism no self-confidence

not destined for oneself narcissism is

vital excess of narcissism

problematic but we find in

all circumstances

no need to reduce to the only girl

so if it is an issue of the cmfi of this

is to language it is not so much this

question of narcissism seems to me

that the question of recognition because

what does it play in fine is in the

taking a picture of yourself and

destiny to the other if not this

link with each other the stake in the salt

girl is the other cfa is the stake

in the girl salt this is not a crisis

of lego if he lives a crisis of the

recognition even though this

would go through the number of likes

harvested do not forget that to be

we must be seen we all need to

recognition

we all need to exist and

today it goes through a

self-representation an acceptance

of the self-image so imagine well

that the presence that our presence that

the presence of the game of his own face

in a salt girl this is neither more nor

less than a signature

so when you have to resume your

kids telling them stop doing

as much salt girl I invite you

rather to learn their language and

started to speak their language and for

do this dear friend because I imagine they

to a lot of people here who have

never made of that girl I you

proposes all of you to lift light if he

please and realize the selphy

with me one frozen in for teddy

text to 3 wanted you scream all and you

raise your arms

you are ready

1 2 3 yeah I greet you so I’m thank you

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