“A selfie, like any photograph, interrupts experience to mark the moment. In this, it shares something with all the other ways we break up our day: when we text during class, in meetings, at the theater, at dinners with friends.”

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This frames a selfie as a pause, not just a picture. It can be taken to mean that taking a photo pulls us out of the flow of life and turns the moment into something we manage, just as we do when attention is split in the middle of ordinary social time.

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Originally said in English.

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