SNAP JUDGMENT
Sep 12, 2021
2 minutes
by LINDA HERRICK
The curse of the smartphone camera is that everyone thinks they’re a photographer. This, of course, doesn’t mean we’re any good. Instead, we have developed a crazy impulse to record the world through our mobiles, enabled by platforms dependent on absorbing more and more new “content”.
And that process disassociates us from reflecting on the past, argues English writer Geoff Dyer in his collected. “The digital tense is a self-fuelling, self-consuming present,” he writes.
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