Mask
Series: Object Lessons;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 30 May 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9798765102404
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages136 pages
- Size 164x122x14 mm
- Weight 130 g
- Language English 558
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Long description:
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
From the theater mask and masquerade to the masked criminal and the rise of facial recognition software, masks have long performed as an instrument for the protection and concealment of identity.
Even as they conceal and protect, masks - as faces - are an extension of the self. At the same time, they are a part of material culture: what are masks made of? What traces do they leave behind? Acknowledging that that mask-wearing has become increasingly weaponized and politicized, Sharrona Pearl looks at the politics of the mask, exploring how identity itself is read on this object.
By exploring who we do (and do not) seek to protect through different forms of masking, Sharrona Pearl's long history of masks helps us to better understand what it is we value.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. My Mask Rules, Often Broken
2. Physiognomy
3. Feature/Bug: Multivalence
4. History: Not of Socks
5. Performing as Protection
6. Freedom and Constraint: Whose Trust Matters
7. Medical Masks and the Covid Elephant
8. Violence and the Masks of War
9. No Way to Hide
10. Villain/Hero: V'Nahafoch Hu
11. Superheroes, or: Who Watches the Watchers
12. The Eyes Have It: Face Facemasks and Looking Like Ourselves
13. Exposure
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
