Welp, I Really Messed That Up [#155]
On one hand, my TED Talk came out and I was really excited to share it with you. On the other hand, I didn't link it properly and sent you to dead links. I repent!
Wow. Yesterday I decided to interrupt regular programming on this humble newsletter because my TED talk came out and it’s about how technology is changing the way we see ourselves, and each other, and I’ve been exploring this stuff for years and care about it a lot. And I wanted you to see it. But then, in an act I cannot blame on technology but truly only human frailty, I decided to SEND YOU TO A DEAD LINK.
So let’s try this again: I can't wait for you to watch “How Digital Culture is Reshaping Our Faces and Bodies.” I actually CHECKED THE LINK this time to make sure it works.
As I wrote yesterday, the talk is about the way the artificial world is now dictating real world appearance standards, the body augmentation arms race it sets off, and how we can respond to all this in an affirmative way, to make room for difference and resist internet-driven sameness.1
It is a distillation of the reporting, research, and writing that went into my book Flawless, and centers around one of its most enduring ideas: the artificial, or technological gaze.
I’m so excited for you to watch it. And after you do, let me know what you think, and please share it with the people in your life who you think should hear it.
The link works this time: How digital culture is reshaping our faces and bodies
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Someone get me an editor,
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