Mask

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvSharrona Pearl,Ian Bogost,Christopher Schaberg

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-30
Mått122 x 164 x 14 mm
Vikt130 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieObject Lessons
Antal sidor136
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765102404

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Sharrona Pearl is Associate Professor of Bioethics and History in the Health Care Administration Department at Drexel University, USA. She is the author of Do I Know You? From Face Blindness to Super Recognition (2023), Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other (2017), and About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2010). Her writing has appeared in Public Books, Lilith Magazine, The Revealer, and The Washington Post, among others.

Introduction1. My Mask Rules, Often Broken2. Physiognomy3. Feature/Bug: Multivalence4. History: Not of Socks5. Performing as Protection6. Freedom and Constraint: Whose Trust Matters7. Medical Masks and the Covid Elephant8. Violence and the Masks of War9. No Way to Hide10. Villain/Hero: V'Nahafoch Hu11. Superheroes, or: Who Watches the Watchers12. The Eyes Have It: Face Facemasks and Looking Like Ourselves13. ExposureAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

Masking is, as Sharrona Pearl wisely observes, a complicated enterprise: masks can protect and buffer even as they diminish, eviscerate, and lie. With a historian's rigor and a human's candor, Pearl addresses all of this and more. From public health to performance and ritual, Mask interrogates the personal, public, and inevitably paradoxical ways we both conceal and reveal our increasingly imperiled selves.