The body as a thick and complex materiality has been populating social sciences in the last three decades in a critical mode toward both naturalism and social constructionism. The body has been progressively theorized in terms of what is established, even though flexible. In other words, as the structural metaphor of knowledge. The co-construction of bodies is not reduced to the politics of mirroring, truth-discovery, and what I was interested to highlight is how the cosmetic and photographic tactile gaze operates on the body as a tabula rasa. The focus on the skin allows precisely to challenge the flat/flattering approach to the body that negates its multilayered subjectivity. How does the beauty labour transform the body and attitudes in YouTube skincare culture and cinema? How does the photographic rupture shape the embodied reactions of new digital identities? The present study investigated visual culture through which the skin has become a subject-matter per se in cinema and YouTube.

在过去的三十年里，身体作为一种厚重而复杂的物质性一直以一种对自然主义和社会建构主义的批判模式充斥在社会科学中。身体已经根据既定的东西逐渐理论化，尽管它是灵活的。换句话说，作为知识的结构隐喻。身体的共同建构并没有被简化为镜像、真相发现的政治，我有兴趣强调的是化妆和摄影触觉凝视如何在身体上作为白板运作。对皮肤的关注恰恰可以挑战否定其多层次主观性的平坦/讨人喜欢的身体方法。美容劳动如何改造身体和YouTube 护肤文化和电影中的态度？摄影断裂如何塑造新数字身份的具身反应？本研究调查了视觉文化，通过这种文化，皮肤本身已成为电影和 YouTube 中的主题。