Beauty Subliminals.
This essay focuses on "beauty subliminals," visual and auditory social media content used as meditation and manifestation tools to aid viewers/listeners in achieving beauty and wellness objectives. I interpret "subliminals" as a kind of "supplement" meant to promote and maintain one's algorithmicall...
| Publicado en: | Afterimage Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 19 - 27 |
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University of California Press
Mar2025
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| Sumario: | This essay focuses on "beauty subliminals," visual and auditory social media content used as meditation and manifestation tools to aid viewers/listeners in achieving beauty and wellness objectives. I interpret "subliminals" as a kind of "supplement" meant to promote and maintain one's algorithmically situated, embodied experience of computational media regimes and prevailing logics of self-optimization. Despite subliminals' "magical" premise, this essay also gestures toward the need for magical ritual and beauty practices otherwise not subsumed by these logics. |
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