Face Politics

by Jenny Edkins

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415672171
• ISBN13: 9780415672177
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"