Air and Breath as Elemental Media, Masks, and Datasets
Aaron Tucker / York University
Vice President Mike Pence visits the Mayo Clinic. As Yiğit Soncul and Jussi Parikka contend in “Masks: The Face between Bodies and Networks,” masks have become particularly symbolically freighted, with recent imagery of their use emerging from the Australian wildfires, protest movements, and the COVID-19 global pandemic. The authors’ following exploration “argues that it is through contexts of immunity and […]
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