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First published in French as Faceworld: Le visage au XXIe siècle. © Presses Universitaires de France/Humensis, Faceworld, 2018 This English edition © Polity Press, 2020

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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-3727-3

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Names: Zilio, Marion, author.

Title: Faceworld : the face in the twenty-first century / Marion Zilio ; translated by Robin Mackay.

Other titles: Faceworld. English

Description: Medford : Polity, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “We have long accepted the face as the most natural and self-evident thing, as if the face were the public manifestation of our inner being. Nothing could be further from the truth. Rather than a window opening onto our inner nature, the face has always been a technical artefact-a construction that owes as much to artificiality as to our genetic inheritance. From the origins of humanity to the triumph of the selfie, Marion Zilio charts the history of the technical, economic, political, legal, and artistic fabrication of the face. Her account of this history culminates in a radical new interrogation of what is too often denounced as our contemporary narcissism. In fact, argues Zilio, the “narcissism” of the selfie may well reconnect us to the deepest sources of the human manufacture of faces-a reconnection that would also be a chance for us to come to terms with the non-human part of ourselves”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019030832 (print) | LCCN 2019030833 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509537259 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509537266 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509537273 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Face--Social aspects. | Face perception. | Facial expression.

Classification: LCC GN298 .Z5513 2020 (print) | LCC GN298 (ebook) | DDC 153.7/58--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019030832 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019030833

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