@article{1482359,
      recid = {1482359},
      author = {Carbone, Mauro, and Lingua, Graziano,},
      title = {Toward an anthropology of screens : showing and hiding,  exposing and protecting /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages) :},
      abstract = {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  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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1482359},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30816-1},
}