Toward an anthropology of screens : showing and hiding, exposing and protecting / Mauro Carbone, Graziano Lingua.
2023
B87
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Title
Toward an anthropology of screens : showing and hiding, exposing and protecting / Mauro Carbone, Graziano Lingua.
ISBN
9783031308161 (electronic bk.)
3031308166 (electronic bk.)
9783031308154
3031308158
3031308166 (electronic bk.)
9783031308154
3031308158
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from Italian.
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-30816-1 doi
Call Number
B87
Dewey Decimal Classification
190
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 13, 2023).
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Lingua, Graziano, author.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.