"Faciality"
 

Deleuze and Guattari discuss "the assemblage of relations that emerges from the destruction of 'the face,' [which] exposes 'faciality' as a system of signification and subjectification that works to anchor, classify, and control identity" (Kienle's summary)
 
I'm not totally sure that this is a groundbreaking insight on Deleuze and Guattari's part, but OK
 
"by demolishing the face, an artist destablizies the binaries on which faciality depends (white/Black, male/female, straight/gay, center/periphery) and reaches a polyvocal, multidimensional, and networked realm of being or becoming" (Kienle, 184)

> from Miriam Kienle's Queer Networks: Ray Johnson's Correspondence Art (2023)

> tagged with #identity

> created June 30, 2026 at 4:50:43 PM


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