Poetics and Politics of the face in the age of smart images

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2019.147284

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face, algorithm, facial recognition, contemporary art, pornography

Abstract

This article explores some contemporary inflections about the status of the face. In contemporary art, in surveillance systems, in marketing practices, in pornography etc.; facial recognition and detection technologies seem to be spreading over a wide range of domains. Not intending to exhaust the theme, we will try to draw some lines of force that aid us in understanding what is at stake in this aesthetic and political reconfiguration of the faces. From some notions we have sought in the works of authors like Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, we have mapped some tensions between action and representation, crystallized in the contemporary status of the face.

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Author Biography

  • Icaro Ferraz Vidal Jr, Tuiuti University of Paraná

    He has a degree in Media Studies from the Fluminense Federal University, a Master's degree in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a Master's degree in "Crossways in European Humanities" from the New University of Lisbon, the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of Sheffield. He holds a PhD in "Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones" by the University of Perpignan Via Domitia and University of Bergamo and another one in Communication and Culture by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is currently a "PNPD-Capes" postdoctoral fellow in the Post-Graduate Program in Communication and Languages at Tuiuti University of Paraná and he is a researcher at MediaLab UFRJ.

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Published

2019-01-31

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Vol. 46 No. 51 (2019): Dossiê: História e Audiovisual

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Vidal Jr, I. F. (2019). Poetics and Politics of the face in the age of smart images. Significação: Journal of Audiovisual Culture, 46(51). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2019.147284