Face in Trouble From Physiognomics to Facebook

This book analyzes unobvious relations between historical definitions of the face and its contemporary usage in popular culture and social media, like Facebook or Instagram. The authors focus on both metaphorical and material meanings of the face and grapple with crucial questions about modernity, modern and postmodern subjectivity.

Auteur

Olga Szmidt graduated in Polish Philology and Literary Criticism at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her research interests concern authenticity, contemporary culture as well as self and identity. Katarzyna Trzeciak is a literary critic and a scholar in comparative literature. She teaches literary criticism and gender theory at the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University.

Contenu

Face Subjectivity Authenticity Facialization Physiognomics De-facing philosophy: Negativity, the government of ethics and the concept of the ethical Face 2.0. A philosophical approach to Facebook's semiotic facialization The physiognomic lie of hysteria The significance of the face in John of Gogów's «Phisionomia hicinde ex illustris scriptoribus» (1518) White sculpted faces: Between the Medusa's gaze and prosopopeic blindness in Irving Feldman's «All of Us Here» - Me, myself and my face: Pirandello meets Gombrowicz Hybrid creatures and uncanny faces in digital cinema The videotaped confession: Authenticity and the suicidal spectacle of the face. A study of a fragment of the «Homeland» TV series Face, selfie, belfie A new chapter in the history of the human body? Instagram as a body-centric product of «the infinity of lists» Presence and agency: Narratives of representation in modern computer role-playing games