The Metonymic Icon: How Faces Inspire Global Imagined Communities

To be presented at Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference at the New School in New York April 17, 2010. More information about the conference: http://criticalthemes.net/2010. More information about the author: http://deepthiw.com »
Deepthi Welaratna

HOW FACES INSPIRE GLOBAL IMAGINED COMMUNITIES
The Metonymic icon
Sacred
Royal
Republic
The New Face
global / local
reconciles ideoscapes
hyperreal environment
representative / unique
multipurpose
multiethnic
CHE
OBAMA
NEDA
MARIANNE
UNIVERSAL MYTH-MAKING
imagined community
universality
ideological identity
Benedict Anderson
ideoscapes
hyperreal present destroys past/future
"a new order of instability in the
production of modern sensibilities"
simulated reality
supercedes history
Arjun Appadurai
Jean Baudrilliard
The Face OF A COMMUNITY
Manfred Steger
the body “has attained the value of a screen"
representing the individual
The face is "overcoded"
Bernadette Wegenstein
THE GLOBAL IMAGINARY

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