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The desire to become as smooth and impervious as my phone

New Feelings Unfleshing The desire to become as smooth and impervious as my phone Nikki Shaner-Bradford January 27, 2020 share Image: By Tyler Spangler . Courtesy the artist. NEW FEELINGS is a column devoted to the desires, moods, pathologies, and identifications that rarely had names before digital media. Read the other installments here . For a long time now I’ve had this fantasy where I carefully pat on my facial toner, and after each swipe, like a windshield wiper, I reveal fresh blubber, a poreless suit to protect me from the outside world. My new skin is the texture of silicon, or glass,

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