Facial Recognition and Posthuman Technologies in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

The human face, real and imagined, has long figured into various forms of cultural personal recognition—to include citizenship, in both the modern ancient world. But beyond affiliations related to borders government, face also prominently biometrics that feed posthuman questions anxieties. For while one requirement is concerned with “unicity,” or which identifies an individual as unique, another it identify “universality,” confirming individual’s membership species. Shakespeare’s sonnets grapple crisis encountering a universal beauty unique specimen Time Nature nonetheless afford no special privilege. Between fair dark lies lament over injustice natural law social valorizations arbitrarily marshaled defend it.