/face by William Lessard contemporary
In William Lessard’s /face, the violence of facial recognition exposes the historical continuity between imperial regimes of classification and contemporary infrastructures of surveillance, where the capture of identity reproduces the fundamental asymmetry between those who render the world legible and those rendered legible for their profit. This is a poetics of dispossession that turns the fractured architectures of digital language against the machinery of its production, demanding that we confront the political conditions under which a face can still claim sovereignty over its own existence.
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