The selfie temporality and contemporary photography This book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face identity photography and temporality focusing on the temporal episteme of selfie practice.Claire Raymond investigates how the selfies involvement with time and self emerges from capitalist ideologies of identity and time. The book leverages theories from Katharina Pistor Jacques Lacan Roegnvaldur Ingthorsson and Hans Belting to explore the ways in which the selfie imposes a dominant ideology on subjectivity by manipulating the affect of time. The selfie is understood in contrast to the self portrait. Artists discussed include James Tylor Shelley Niro Ellen Carey Graham MacIndoe and LaToya Ruby Frazier.The book will be of interest to scholars working in visual culture history of photography and critical theory. It will also appeal to scholars of philosophy and in particular of the intersection of aesthetic theory and theories of ontology epistemology and temporality Dreaming the Self: Selfie Practice Temporality and Artificial Intelligence The Capitalist Affect Embodied Self: Temporality Ontology Mortality Numbering Identity: The Algorithmic Self Archive Memory Identity Selfie as Mask Celebrity Self Fashioning Self Portrait Performance.