| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Interventions |
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Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; Introduction; Paradox of the face; Making and unmaking faces; 1 Faces in photographs; Reading faces: Suzanne Opton's Soldier face; Inscrutable faces: Robert Lyon's Intimate Enemy and Ly Daravuth's Messengers; Photography as an encounter with trauma; 2 Moving faces; Immovable faces: Möbius syndrome; Expression, emotion and the turn to affect; Mirroring faces: "I feel your pain"; From face to body to object: Mona Hatoum and Antony Gormley; 3 From face capture to face blindness; We have your face: English riots 2011 |
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Faces and physiognomyFace blindness: Oliver Sacks and Chuck Close; Stripping away the face: Francis Bacon; 4 Facelessness: another politics?; War wounds: Paddy Hartley's Faces of Battle and Henry Tonks' pastels; Face difference and surgery:Mark Gilbert's Saving Faces; The face of another: Isabelle Dinoire; Face, personhood and politics; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The face is central to contemporary politics. In Deleuze and Guattari's work on faciality 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed April 17, 2015) |
| Subject |
Face perception.
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Face -- Social aspects
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Politics, Practical.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Face.
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Visual perception.
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Facial expression.
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Face
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Visual Perception
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Facial Expression
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Politics
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visual perception.
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politics.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Visual perception
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Facial expression
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Face
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Face perception
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Face -- Social aspects
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Political science -- Philosophy
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Politics, Practical
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317511816 |
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1317511816 |
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9781315718040 |
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1315718049 |
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9781317511793 |
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1317511794 |
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9781317511809 |
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1317511808 |
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0415672171 |
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9780415672177 |
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041567218X |
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9780415672184 |
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