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Bezig met laden... Faceworlddoor Marion Zilio
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This volume traces the history of the invention of the face. Zilio delves into the technical, economic, philosophical, and artistic influences that have shaped the role of the face in culture and society. Zilio’s narrative can spark insights but it is not an easy read. The language is academic and requires concentrated reading. This is a timely book, however, as people interact with masked faces and the floating heads in video conferences. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
We have long accepted the face as the most natural and self-evident thing, believing that in it we could read, as if on a screen, our emotions and our doubts, our anger and joy. We have decorated them, made them up, designed them, as if the face were the true calling card of our personality, the public manifestation of our inner being. Nothing could be further from the truth. Rather than a window opening onto our inner nature, the face has always been a technical artefact--a construction that owes as much to artificiality as to our genetic inheritance. From the origins of humanity to the triumph of the selfie, Marion Zilio charts the history of the technical, economic, political, legal, and artistic fabrication of the face. Her account of this history culminates in a radical new interrogation of what is too often denounced as our contemporary narcissism. In fact, argues Zilio, the "narcissism" of the selfie may well reconnect us to the deepest sources of the human manufacture of faces--a reconnection that would also be a chance for us to come to terms with the non-human part of ourselves. This highly original reflection on the fabrication of the face will be of great value to students and scholars of media and culture and to anyone interested in the pervasiveness of the face in our contemporary age of the selfie. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)153.758Philosophy and Psychology Psychology Cognition And Memory Perception By Type Of FacesLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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