{"id":26021,"date":"2023-08-10T19:45:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/id-52203768\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T19:45:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:45:29","slug":"id-52203768","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/id-52203768\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Faces (Undelivered Lectures) by Namwali Serpell (ePUB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stranger Faces (Undelivered Lectures) by Namwali Serpell is now available for free ePub download or online reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intro:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If evolutionary biologists, ethical philosophers, and social media gurus are to be believed, the face is the basis for what we call &#8216;humanity.&#8217; The face is considered the source of identity, truth, beauty, authenticity, and empathy. It underlies our ideas about what constitutes a human, how we relate emotionally, what is pleasing to the eye, and how we ought to treat each other. But all of this rests on a specific image of the face. We might call it the ideal face.<\/p>\n<p>What about the strange face, the stranger&#8217;s face, the face that thwarts recognition? What do we make of the face that rides the line of legibility? In a collection of speculative essays on a few such stranger faces\u2015the disabled face, the racially ambiguous face, the digital face, the face of the dead\u2015Namwali Serpell probes our contemporary mythology of the face. <em>Stranger Faces<\/em> imagines a new ethics based on the perverse pleasures we take in the very mutability of faces.. First published September 29, 2020. Original format: Paperback. Pages: 140. #stranger-faces-ebook #stranger-faces-epub #read #download<\/p>\n<p>User Rating: 3.79 (based on 367 ratings)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download EPUB Stranger Faces (Undelivered Lectures) by Namwali Serpell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc1 File details: <em>stranger-faces.epub<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/redirect\/id-52203768\" class=\"mi-boton\">DOWNLOAD<\/a> <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stranger Faces (Undelivered Lectures) by Namwali Serpell is now available for free ePub download or online reading. Intro: If evolutionary biologists, ethical philosophers, and social media gurus are to be believed, the face is the basis for what we call &#8216;humanity.&#8217; The face is considered the source of identity, truth, beauty, authenticity, and empathy. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,182,627,173,587,129,29,175,237,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-literature","category-disability","category-disability-studies","category-essays","category-literary-criticism","category-nonfiction","category-philosophy","category-theory","category-womens","category-zambia"],"blocksy_meta":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}