Post-human face: Interfaces between facial harmonization practices and contemporary processes of cyborgization of the female

Abstract

A friend once introduced me on Instagram to Rupi Kaur (@rupikaur), an Indian-Canadian feminist poet, and these verses of hers affected me so deeply that they led me to write a thesis: “If you see beauty here, it doesn’t mean that there is beauty in me. It means your beauty is so deep that you see beauty in everything.” Weaving reflections on this, this article is the result of ethnographic reflections on facial harmonization practices and the constitution of female subjectivity in contemporary society. In the relationship between body and technology, based on the classic cyborg theory advocated by Donna Haraway (2009) and the fundamental considerations about an anthropology of cyberculture proposed by Escobar (2005), I seek to develop a look at these “cyborgian” and “cyborgizing” actions.” Developing the post-face category, I observe possibilities of constructions between biosocial transformations (Foucault, 1999), subjectivities (Turkle, 2005), and agencies (Ortner, 2001) of women and their respective aesthetic and personal poetics immersed in a society understood as “post-organic” (Thomas, 1991).