{"product_id":"stranger-faces","title":"Stranger Faces","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIf evolutionary biologists, ethical philosophers, and social media gurus are to be believed, the face is the basis for what we call \"humanity.\" The face is considered the source of identity, truth, beauty, authenticity, and empathy. It underlies our ideas about what constitutes a human, how we relate emotionally, what is pleasing to the eye, and how we ought to treat each other. But all of this rests on a specific image of the face. We might call it the ideal face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eWhat about the strange face, the stranger's face, the face that thwarts recognition? What do we make of the face that rides the line of legibility? In a collection of speculative essays on a few such stranger faces—the disabled face, the racially ambiguous face, the digital face, the face of the dead—Namwali Serpell probes our contemporary mythology of the face.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eStranger Faces\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eimagines a new ethics based on the perverse pleasures we take in the very mutability of faces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eStranger Faces\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eis part of the Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUt enim ad minim veniam.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDuis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVelit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExcepteur sint occaecat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCupidatat non proident, sunt.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Staging Store Lost River Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42965242151051,"sku":"","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/dev-store-lost-river-press.myshopify.com\/products\/stranger-faces","provider":"Dev Store Lost River Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}