Blank Faces

Guest editors: Meghanne Barker and Perry Sherouse
You gaze at a face. Something is missing "the eyes are closed, the mouth is covered, the nose has ended up in the barber's bread". This issue of Semiotic Review works to uncover semiotic ideologies of the face by analyzing what happens when people obscure, strip away, omit or overlook features. Our contributors interrogate what happens when a face or part of it goes absent, whether through masks or screens, erasure or enclosure. We examine faces as ideas and as technologies, as sites of sociality and of self-fashioning. Like all thematic issues, Blank Faces will remain open to new essays and interventions, and there is no deadline for submission. For the Call for Papers click here. To submit e-mail: semioticreview@gmail.com.