Hybrid Face - Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and socio-cultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face.

List of contents

1. Masked Faces: A Tale of Functional Redeployment between Biology and Material Culture
2. Contagious Faces: Coping Digitally with the Pandemic by Means of Memes
3. Uncertain Faces: An Investigation into Visual Forms for Communicating Otherness
4. Simulacral Faces: A Dramaturgy in Digital Environments
5. Emerging Faces: The Figure-Ground Relation from Renaissance Painting to Deepfakes
6. Timely Faces
7. Featureless Faces: A Film Aesthetics
8. Imaginary Faces: Aliens, Monsters, and Otherness
9. Automatic Faces: The Transcendent Visage of Trans-Humanity
10. Algorithmic Faces: Reflections on the Visage in Artistic Translation and Transition
11. Dating Faces: The Facial Space of Belonging in Online (Dating) Communities
12. Evanescent Faces: A Semiotic Investigation of Digital Memorials and Commemorative Practices
13. References

About the author

Massimo Leone is Professor of Philosophy of Communication at the University of Turin; Research Director at the "Bruno Kessler Foundation", Trento; part-time Professor of Semiotics at the University of Shanghai; associate member of Cambridge Digital Humanities; and Adjunct Professor at the UCAB University of Caracas. He is the PI of ERC Projects FACETS (2019) and EUFACETS (2022).

Product details

• Authors: Massimo (University of Turin Leone
• Assisted by: Leone Massimo (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032460963
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246096-3
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Routledge/FACETS Advances in Face Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, Popular Culture, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Communication Studies, Philosophy: aesthetics, Graphical & digital media applications, Graphical and digital media applications, The arts: general topics