15 YEARS AGO BRITNEY WALKED INTO ESTHER'S HAIR SALON AND SHAVED HER HEAD, THE IPHONE AND THE FIRST KARDASHIAN EPISODE LAUNCHED.

“On Instagram, I post an update from my gender transition every Thursday. The question is: When will Instagram ban my nipples? It’s not just about nipples; it’s about when I have the shady pleasure of being censored, because I go from being categorized as a man, to being categorized as a woman and so being excluded from the community.” Ada Ada Ada

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FIVE FAVE/ PARIS / JULY 2022

Period apps, ovulation tracking or cycle monitoring are popular. There are hundreds of these cycle-monitoring apps for the purpose of either conceiving or avoiding pregnancy. In the wake of Roe v. Wade decision in the US concerns about abortion surveillance has given rise to a debate and Americans are now deleting their period apps.

Planet City, Liam Young (2021) on display at Plásmata: Boodies, Dreams, and Data.

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELFIES

“It is very similar to climate change – people feel an individualised responsibility to fix something that is a collective action problem. The harm occurs collectively not individually – that is one of the problems that countered the way that my story has over-influenced the individual at the expense of articulating the collective harm and over-complicates this, like the duty of the individual to solve these problems in the same way – as though your consumer choices are going to save the world. No! As an individual, you cannot do that. Like the privacy and the data abuse and children and digital media – it is the same: you, as a parent, can do what you can for your kid, but you can’t solve these problems in your family.”