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UNINA9910746967103321 |
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Autore |
Carbone Mauro <1956-> |
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Titolo |
Toward an Anthropology of Screens : Showing and Hiding, Exposing and Protecting / / by Mauro Carbone, Graziano Lingua |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2023.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Motion pictures - Aesthetics |
Ethnology |
Continental philosophy |
Digital humanities |
Film Philosophy |
Sociocultural Anthropology |
Continental Philosophy |
Digital Humanities |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction -- 2. On the Powers of the Arche-screen -- 3. Screens as Prostheses of Our Bodies -- 4. Images and Words -- 5. The “Transparency 2.0” Ideology -- 6.Screens’r’us - From Bodies with Prostheses to Bodies As “Quasi-Prostheses”? -- 7. Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 the protecting/exposing ones, as the Covid-19 pandemic retaught us. The intertwining of these functions allows the authors to criticize the mainstream ideas of images as inseparable from screens, of words as |
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opposed to images, and of what they call “Transparency 2.0” ideology, which currently dominates our socio-political life. Moreover, they show how wearable technologies don’t approximate us to a presumed disappearance of screens but seem to draw a circular pathway back to using our bodies as screens. This raises new relational, ethical, and political questions, which this book helps to illuminate. |
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