... a full range of facial expressions; they disappoint by failing to look the part. The “Red Indian” best placed to appreciate and negotiate this dilemma and give Western audiences what they want is the white faker, the pale face with the red mask. On his first meeting with Grey Owl, the Canadian writer...

...Pollyanna Ruiz This article examines the practical and theoretical implications raised by protesters' use of masks to conceal themselves from the eyes of the state. It argues that the refusal to be seen and categorized by the state is empowering in that it exposes, and then unsettles, the power...

... the logic of maximum efficiency internalized by the film's protagonist. As such the film questions the libertarian rhetoric of the open road and instead proposes that American fictions of free mobility mask the fact of containment by military-industrial imperatives. © BERG 2007 PRINTED IN THE UK 2007...

... from the phenomenon of “amusing ourselves to death” in the United States and that this difference has been masked by the decontextualized mechanical application of Western cultural theories, an increasingly common practice in Chinese cultural studies. In fact, Chinese-style “amusing ourselves to death...

..., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Yale Center for British Art. In 1994, Galembo received a Senior Fulbright Research Award to photograph “Kings, Chiefs and Women of Power, Nigeria,” and has authored several other books. Her most recent monograph, Phyllis Galembo: Maske (London: Chris Boot Ltd, 2010...

...Daniël de Zeeuw; Marc Tuters At the fringes of an increasingly hegemonic platform economy, there exists another web of anonymous forums and image boards whose unique “mask culture” the article aims to deconstruct by tracing its roots in the cyber-separationist imaginary of early internet culture...

..., the pixel visibly inscribes the transgressive body. Yet this is a visibility defined by its unreadability. Pixelation carves up the flesh yet not necessarily into identifiable, manageable pieces. Pixelation often resembles a blurred “floating” mask that hovers over an individual’s actual face. It takes...

...Figure 3 Athena with a Criolla Mask, Mulata Body (Statue of the Republic with Original Models Superimposed) , author’s collage, 2017 ...

.... As is known, the Germanic tribes were a nomadic war machine. They did not march into battle under the command of a supreme warlord. Their courage and fury came from secret associations ( Geheimbünde ), that is to say, from initiation rituals. The warriors donned wolf or bear masks, thus turning...

... in the symbolic orders of language, image, and other formal systems remains a vital legacy of this historical origin. Potent myths – these beliefs in fine art’s autonomy and efficacy – are not un-truths, but they are masking ideologies. From them we inherit the idea that radical de-familiarization, making...

... the context of racism. In this current pandemic, there is no denying the paranoia that the person next to me, near me, around me, more than six feet apart from me even, asymptomatic or not, is potentially a “super spreader,” no matter whether he or she is of the same race or color as myself. My mask or my...

... failure, narcosis, and hypnosis; sensory deprivation in the use of blindfolding, hooding, sound-proofing masks, nasal masks, and sensory deprivation vaults; sensory assault with bright or stroboscopic lights, loud noise and shouting; forced nakedness, denial of personal hygiene, forced interaction...

... masks when purchasing goods in the era of the coronavirus (conflicts over wearing face masks in supermarkets are an example); some supermarket employees oppose the installation of new anticoronavirus personal protection equipment (PPE) (think of numerous supermarket checkout workers face masked for up...

... as it is, to level a rupture in default stories that mask the world's material realities and violences. Working through complexities of subjectivity and point of view in relation to beings-other-than-human is deeply significant to discussions of empathy, literature. and multispecies justice, particularly...

..., exploit ecological resources, and contribute to carbon emissions. What masks the attendant inequalities associated with this regime is that this push to relentlessly expand global networks of capital is coupled with calls to halt the global movement of people in a simultaneous “ headlong rush backward...

... ascending upward to be caught by monofilament attached to the ceiling; on the descending ribbon ends were tied graphically hand-printed cut-out paper heads, severed and still screaming. Some of the double-sided heads were mask-like profiles howling with distended tongues, some were full-faced horrors...

... designed to assimilate, control, and mask the differential nature of humanity. In contrast, Demos, an art historian and cultural critic, depicts humanity as a vibrating field of differences that is reluctant to express itself as oneness. Through this insistence Demos enables us to see how capitalist...

...) straightforwardness seems to mask an elaborately encrypted code language. Every pictorial element lines up as if it were part of a glyph sentence. The hatching lines that depict the barn’s deteriorating roof tiles march horizontally with casual cuniformic regularity until an uncanny hole appears in the shape...

... is merely to mask the abyss opened up by the inconsistency of the Other and that, viewed from another perspective, the object itself does not justify the individual's elevation of it to the status of the objet petit a . As already observed, Jerzy is unable to do this, relentlessly pursuing his fantasy...