I PLEAD SELFIE Carcy8_SS22 So far, I’ve never found my “angle”. I have studied it, for hours, in front of that little bubbly eye staring at me from the back of my phone. I have tried every single position, every stance and pout, every attitude... I am still looking for that right face angle (should I say standpoint?). But hear me out: I will never renounce to it. Some of my friends are really good at it so I actively learn from their particular selfie routines, and there is something deeply fascinating in this ritual: one can anchor their image in time and space, and I can’t help but notice a form of self-affiliation in the process — when some killjoys would rather see it as a form of self-alienation. What the skeptics fail to grasp is that selfies also participate in a course of auto-fiction which subverts a lot of preconceptions about identity. Self portraits or selfies, filters and techniques, have also allowed our images to become fluid, modular and extensible. In order to celebrate this (not so new, yet a little bit) advent, Carcy has asked his favorite stylists to send over some fierce pictures of themselves and has invited French philosopher Marion Zilio, author of the great essay Faceworld, to give a little more insight about the history of selfies — what it means about me, you, them and us together. Interview by @michadanger #carcymagazine #lustatlarge #womeninbusiness