Toward an Anthropology of Screens: Showing and Hiding, Exposing and Protecting

by Mauro Carbone and Graziano Lingua

Book Overview

This book shows that screens don't just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's relationships with the physical and anthropological-cultural environment. By combining a series of historical-genealogical reconstructions going back to prehistoric times with the analysis of present and near-future technologies, the authors show that screens have always incorporated not only the hiding/showing functions but also...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031308158
• ISBN13: 9783031308154
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"