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
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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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