Masks/Virus/Human Entanglements: Response to Denzin's Scenes From Masked and Anonymous.

If the "I" of new materialism is, in Bennett's words, "Absorbent... continually ingressed, ensnared, and informed by an outside," what happens to that absorbent "I" when faces are hidden behind masks, as Denzin writes: anonymous, "hiding the truth of our presence," fearful of the Trickster, Covid-19, lurking everywhere? What sense can we make of the entanglement of masks/virus/humans? What are we, what have we become, what are we becoming behind our masks? We seek to protect ourselves and others from the virulent airborne particles and lose our humanity, and we leave our bare faces hanging out, and embrace the "outside." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]