1. Introduction

PART I. Masks and Faces: Philosophical and Cultural Perspectives

2. Arendt and French Existentialist Takes on Mask. The Risks and Promises of Appearance, Then and Now

3. Proust’s One Hundred and One Masks

4. Archeology of the Mask in the History of Cinema

5. Hypertrophies of the Face: Toward a Phenomenology of Masking

Part II. Racialization, Anonymization, Surveillance, and Recognition: Masks and Faces in the History and Philosophy of Science, Media, and Anthropology

6. Tools in Transit: Rudolf Poch’s Facial Classification and its Multiple Interpretations

7. Coding Face, Enumerating Race from Francis Galton’s Numeralised Portraits to Biometric Facial Recognition Technology in the Twenty-First Century

8. Felina Unmasked: Transparency, Anonymity, and Power

9. Plaster Facial Casts: Celebration, Categorization, Anonymization in the Nineteenth Century

Part III. Animals, Avatars, and Selfies: The Future of the Face/Mask

10. Perceiving Masked Faces: Insights from Experimental Psychology

11. Masking Animals

12. Empty Masks and Uncanny Appearances: Reflections on Masks in Digital Culture

13. Face h/and Mask

Index