{"id":1440,"date":"2013-02-09T18:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2013-02-09T18:30:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T18:30:55","slug":"brilliant_essay_about_snapchat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/09\/brilliant_essay_about_snapchat\/","title":{"rendered":"brilliant essay about snapchat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/pics-and-it-didnt-happen\/\">&#8220;Pix and It Didn&#8217;t Happen&#8221;<\/a> by Nathan Jurgenson in <em>The New Inquiry<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A photograph is made of time as much as it is of light &#8212; a frozen shutter-speed-size gap of the present captured within a photo border. Despite this, photographs have always been a way to cheat death, or at least to declare the illusion of immortality through lasting visual evidence. There&#8217;s always the possibility that the next photo you take will one day be lovingly removed from a box by some unborn great-grandchild; the Polaroid developing in your hands might come to be pinned to someone&#8217;s bedpost in posterity. To update that to more contemporary terms, your selfie on Instagram might be a signpost for the future you of what it was like to be this young.<br \/>\nOn Snapchat, images have no such future. Fittingly, its logo is a ghost.<br \/>\nBy refuting the assumption of the permanence of the image, Snapchat is a radical departure. It inaugurates temporary photography . . . &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pix and It Didn&#8217;t Happen&#8221; by Nathan Jurgenson in The New Inquiry. &#8220;A photograph is made of time as much as it is of light &#8212; a frozen shutter-speed-size gap of the present captured within a photo border. Despite this, photographs have always been a way to cheat death, or at least to declare the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}