Face politics / Jenny Edkins.
| Author/creator |
Edkins, Jenny |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2015] |
| Description | xviii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | Interventions Interventions (Routledge (Firm)) ^A1054666 |
| Contents | 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: Mobius 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 -- Faces and physiognomy -- Face 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. |
| Abstract | 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 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index. |
| LCCN | 2014038016 |
| ISBN | 9780415672177 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0415672171 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780415672184 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 041567218X (pbk.) |
| Standard identifier# | 40024839714 |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | BF242 .E36 2015 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |