Jenny Edkins - Interventions Ser.: Politics of the Human Face ebook DOC, EPUB, TXT
9780415672177 0415672171 In Deleuze and Guattari's work on faciality we find an assertion that the face is a politics and that only certain forms of political and social organisation make faces. For them the alternative to making faces is a dismantling of the face, which is also a politics. But what would dismantling the face entail, in practical terms? What sort of a politics is it? Is it already taking place? Is it a politics that is to be desired, a better politics, a 'progressive' politics? Or does the persistent use of images of the face in protests such as those in Manhattan, or elsewhere, before and after, with its insistence on the politics of personhood that the face embodies, tell us something different? This book examines these questions and others in a series of chapters on the politics of such diverse issues as images of faces in photographs and portraits; expressive faces, psychology and neuroscience; face recognition and face blindness; facial injury, disfigurement and face transplants. It explores the works of Suzanne Opton, Robert Lyons, Ly Daravuth, Alfredo Jaar, Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum, Chuck Close, Francis Bacon, Paddy Hartley, Mark Gilbert and Orlan.The book opens up a vast field of further research that needs to be taken forward to begin to address the politics of the face more fully, and to elaborate the alternative forms of personhood and politics that dismantling the face opens to view. The book will be agenda-setting for scholars located in the field of international politics in particular but cognate areas as well who want to pursue the implications of face politics for the crucial questions of subjectivity, sovereignty and personhood., The face is central to contemporary politics. In Deleuze and Guattari's work on facility we find an assertion that the face is a particular politics, and dismantling the face is also a politics. This book explores the politics of such diverse issues as images and faces in photographs and portraits; expressive faces; psychology and neuroscience; face recognition; face blindness; facial injury, disfigurement and face transplants through questions such as: What it might mean to dismantle the face, and what politics this might entail, in practical terms? What sort of a politics is it? Is it already taking place? Is it a politics that is to be desired, a better politics, a progressive politics? The book opens up a vast field of further research that needs to be taken forward to begin to address the politics of the face more fully, and to elaborate the alternative forms of personhood and politics that dismantling the face opens to view. The book will be agenda-setting for scholars located in the field of international politics in particular but cognate areas as well who want to pursue the implications of face politics for the crucial questions of subjectivity, sovereignty and personhood., The face, and the image of the face, remains hugely powerful in contemporary politics. Images of family members lost in war become treasured objects passed down the generations like heirlooms and can contest commemorations which present those killed as national heroes. When people go missing or are disappeared those protesting the disappearances or seeking the missing carry photographs of those they have lost. They do this because they know that marching with the faces of the dead will generate a powerful emotional and political response. These faces are not images of atrocity or suffering, they are the snapshots, torn from the family album, of people unaware of what their fate was to be. The book examines the following questions Why does the image of the face remain so powerful? What political impact does it have, and how? What can the continuing centrality of the face tell us about politics? Does it remind us that we are all distinct individuals, far from becoming post-human, or is there something more going on? If so, what might that be? The book will proceed through an examination of the changing image of the face in different mediums and in a diversity of geographical locations and historical periods, a study of developing scientific conceptions of the face and its function, and an exploration of discussions of the face in philosophy. It will draw out the implications of changing conceptions of face, but also emphasise the continuities. The work is motivated by the hypothesis that a focus on the face, and its enduring importance in understanding what being human might be, can lay the groundwork for a different conception of political possibility. Although individual man " may, as Foucault argues, be disappearing as the key figure in our political thought, the face, even though drawn in sand at the edge of the sea ",remains of haunting significance.
9780415672177 0415672171 In Deleuze and Guattari's work on faciality we find an assertion that the face is a politics and that only certain forms of political and social organisation make faces. For them the alternative to making faces is a dismantling of the face, which is also a politics. But what would dismantling the face entail, in practical terms? What sort of a politics is it? Is it already taking place? Is it a politics that is to be desired, a better politics, a 'progressive' politics? Or does the persistent use of images of the face in protests such as those in Manhattan, or elsewhere, before and after, with its insistence on the politics of personhood that the face embodies, tell us something different? This book examines these questions and others in a series of chapters on the politics of such diverse issues as images of faces in photographs and portraits; expressive faces, psychology and neuroscience; face recognition and face blindness; facial injury, disfigurement and face transplants. It explores the works of Suzanne Opton, Robert Lyons, Ly Daravuth, Alfredo Jaar, Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum, Chuck Close, Francis Bacon, Paddy Hartley, Mark Gilbert and Orlan.The book opens up a vast field of further research that needs to be taken forward to begin to address the politics of the face more fully, and to elaborate the alternative forms of personhood and politics that dismantling the face opens to view. The book will be agenda-setting for scholars located in the field of international politics in particular but cognate areas as well who want to pursue the implications of face politics for the crucial questions of subjectivity, sovereignty and personhood., The face is central to contemporary politics. In Deleuze and Guattari's work on facility we find an assertion that the face is a particular politics, and dismantling the face is also a politics. This book explores the politics of such diverse issues as images and faces in photographs and portraits; expressive faces; psychology and neuroscience; face recognition; face blindness; facial injury, disfigurement and face transplants through questions such as: What it might mean to dismantle the face, and what politics this might entail, in practical terms? What sort of a politics is it? Is it already taking place? Is it a politics that is to be desired, a better politics, a progressive politics? The book opens up a vast field of further research that needs to be taken forward to begin to address the politics of the face more fully, and to elaborate the alternative forms of personhood and politics that dismantling the face opens to view. The book will be agenda-setting for scholars located in the field of international politics in particular but cognate areas as well who want to pursue the implications of face politics for the crucial questions of subjectivity, sovereignty and personhood., The face, and the image of the face, remains hugely powerful in contemporary politics. Images of family members lost in war become treasured objects passed down the generations like heirlooms and can contest commemorations which present those killed as national heroes. When people go missing or are disappeared those protesting the disappearances or seeking the missing carry photographs of those they have lost. They do this because they know that marching with the faces of the dead will generate a powerful emotional and political response. These faces are not images of atrocity or suffering, they are the snapshots, torn from the family album, of people unaware of what their fate was to be. The book examines the following questions Why does the image of the face remain so powerful? What political impact does it have, and how? What can the continuing centrality of the face tell us about politics? Does it remind us that we are all distinct individuals, far from becoming post-human, or is there something more going on? If so, what might that be? The book will proceed through an examination of the changing image of the face in different mediums and in a diversity of geographical locations and historical periods, a study of developing scientific conceptions of the face and its function, and an exploration of discussions of the face in philosophy. It will draw out the implications of changing conceptions of face, but also emphasise the continuities. The work is motivated by the hypothesis that a focus on the face, and its enduring importance in understanding what being human might be, can lay the groundwork for a different conception of political possibility. Although individual man " may, as Foucault argues, be disappearing as the key figure in our political thought, the face, even though drawn in sand at the edge of the sea ",remains of haunting significance.