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9. Allie Rowbottom's Aesthetica, Erasure of the Flesh, and the Polymorphic Self
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Episode 9: Allie Rowbottom's Aesthetica, Erasure of the Flesh, and the Polymorphic Self
Allie Rowbottom’s Aesthetica (available for preorder here) is a near-future peek into the inevitable. At 35, rudderless and lost, the protagonist, a former Instagram influencer, undergoes a dicey elective procedure to erase the years of fillers, lifts, laser and peels that extruded her form into one precision-engineered to resonate with a now-obsolete algorithm. We look back on the circumstances that led to her physical…
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