we have pictures but we really don’t have selves, and it’s ok, because now we have the digital spaces for images to be our stand ins. Waiting on history’s sidelines, they take center stage. At one moment memos of trans-generational value, now digital mirrors as affective effects : memory as portable annexes to our nows, existing as modular states across interoperable devices: 1st my synaptic network, then our digital one.