This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and socio-cultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face.
This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and socio-cultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face.
Massimo Leone is Professor of Philosophy of Communication at the University of Turin; Research Director at the "Bruno Kessler Foundation", Trento; part-time Professor of Semiotics at the University of Shanghai; associate member of Cambridge Digital Humanities; and Adjunct Professor at the UCAB University of Caracas. He is the PI of ERC Projects FACETS (2019) and EUFACETS (2022).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Masked Faces: A Tale of Functional Redeployment between Biology and Material Culture 2. Contagious Faces: Coping Digitally with the Pandemic by Means of Memes 3. Uncertain Faces: An Investigation into Visual Forms for Communicating Otherness 4. Simulacral Faces: A Dramaturgy in Digital Environments 5. Emerging Faces: The Figure-Ground Relation from Renaissance Painting to Deepfakes 6. Timely Faces 7. Featureless Faces: A Film Aesthetics 8. Imaginary Faces: Aliens, Monsters, and Otherness 9. Automatic Faces: The Transcendent Visage of Trans-Humanity 10. Algorithmic Faces: Reflections on the Visage in Artistic Translation and Transition 11. Dating Faces: The Facial Space of Belonging in Online (Dating) Communities 12. Evanescent Faces: A Semiotic Investigation of Digital Memorials and Commemorative Practices 13. References
1. Masked Faces: A Tale of Functional Redeployment between Biology and Material Culture 2. Contagious Faces: Coping Digitally with the Pandemic by Means of Memes 3. Uncertain Faces: An Investigation into Visual Forms for Communicating Otherness 4. Simulacral Faces: A Dramaturgy in Digital Environments 5. Emerging Faces: The Figure-Ground Relation from Renaissance Painting to Deepfakes 6. Timely Faces 7. Featureless Faces: A Film Aesthetics 8. Imaginary Faces: Aliens, Monsters, and Otherness 9. Automatic Faces: The Transcendent Visage of Trans-Humanity 10. Algorithmic Faces: Reflections on the Visage in Artistic Translation and Transition 11. Dating Faces: The Facial Space of Belonging in Online (Dating) Communities 12. Evanescent Faces: A Semiotic Investigation of Digital Memorials and Commemorative Practices 13. References
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