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Biometric technology is on the rise. Its applications are wide-ranging: facial scanning to replace passwords; iris recognition to replace debit cards; fingerprints to replace passports. Value is increasingly tied to faces, and faces have increasing value. Boaz Levin and Vera Tollmann, theorists and cofounders of the Research Center For Proxy Politics, explore the “token value” of identity resulting from such software and hardware, where one’s “digital identity and physical body become closely entangled” and one’s virtual proxy enters the political realm. Can the one-to-one relationship between self and proxy be skewed through forms of obfuscation? What will happen when the face on the screen looks back?
Original language | English |
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Journal | transmediale/journal |
Volume | 2018 |
Issue number | 1 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISSN | 2197-4276 |
Publication status | Published - 02.01.2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
- Media and communication studies