Reconfiguring the Portrait

List of Figures
Contributors
Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Configurations of Portraiture: Subjectivity, Techniques, Mediality
I GENEALOGIES
	2 Operative Portraits, or How Our Faces Became Big Data
	3 ‘This Person Does Not Exist’: From Real Generalisation to Algorithmic Abstraction in Photographic Portraiture
	4 The Face as Artefact: Towards an Artefactual Genealogy of the Portrait
II (INTER)FACES
	5 When Face Becomes Interface: Music Video and the Portrait of Mediality
	6 Tracing Minor Gestures: Relational Portraits with Fernand Deligny
	7 Lifelike Portraits and ‘Life Itself’: Deepfakes through Gothic Horror
	8 Animal Portraits in Social Media: A Case Study Named Esther
III SELF-CONSTRUCTIONS
	9 The Subject in the Frame: Aesthetic Opacity and the Reverberations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality through the Portrait
	10 The Avatarisation of the (Self-)Portrait: Notes Towards a Theological Genealogy of the Virtual Self
	11 Iiu Susiraja: Self-shooting as Playful Practice
	12 The Quantification Trilogy’s Loss-of-Self Portraits, or Mediating the Technologies of the Self
IV AFTERLIVES
	13 As if to Say Nothing: On Balthus’s Portraits
	14 Speaking, through the Eyes, with the Dead
	15 Revenants: On the Animation of Dead People’s Portraits in Contemporary Technoculture
Index