Lecture

Compte rendu de Mauro Carbone et Graziano Lingua, Towards an Anthropology of Screens

Showing and Hiding, Exposing and Protecting,‎ Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Guillaume Giroud

Mauro Carbone and Graziano Lingua’s book offers an anthropology of screen experiences. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, they propose a rethinking of the nature and status of screens, and with them of philosophy. Thanks to their interdisciplinary erudition, the authors overturn current thinking on screens, which presupposes an implicit Platonic metaphysics reducing them to a mere surface, whereas the authors posit them as relational devices that show and hide, expose and protect. Adopting a transhistorical point of view, they consider the body as a proto-screen, the origin...