Francesca on Observations for the Historical Record

Thank you for this, Emma. I am the generation above you and still remember when a ‘computer’ was a whisper in the engineering lab of my uni, to which I paid scant attention - I was more interested in photography and developing my own photos. I sometimes wonder if I am living in a hologram, a parallel X, or a cyclic universe where I am condemned to live repeats of cycles of technological advancement. Is Atlantis 2.0 around the corner? And if so, do I want it? All the glorification of the intensely anthropocentric interpretations of what is ‘good’ or ‘right’ in a self-devouring species which has reached the part of the cycle where the brain/mind is devoured from above has always been somewhat repugnant to me. I even have wondered about it photography for decades, as per Wim Wenders ‘Until the end of the world’, totally prescient. This twisting into self-obsession has reached ever more dizzying heights with every teenage girl’s lips frozen into a chimp pout, and adult women frozen into a botox trout pout. Where are the men that take a stand on this one wonders, for is it not to please them, or is it actually self-obsession...or is it manipulation? Anyhow, this is a welcome debate and one not explored enough, so thank you again.