Massimo Leone is Professor of Philosophy of Communication at the University of Turin; Research Director at the "Bruno Kessler Foundation", Trento; part-time Professor of Semiotics at the University of Shanghai; associate member of Cambridge Digital Humanities; and Adjunct Professor at the UCAB University of Caracas. He is the PI of ERC Projects FACETS (2019) and EUFACETS (2022).

1. Masked Faces: A Tale of Functional Redeployment between Biology and Material Culture
2. Contagious Faces: Coping Digitally with the Pandemic by Means of Memes
3. Uncertain Faces: An Investigation into Visual Forms for Communicating Otherness
4. Simulacral Faces: A Dramaturgy in Digital Environments
5. Emerging Faces: The Figure-Ground Relation from Renaissance Painting to Deepfakes
6. Timely Faces
7. Featureless Faces: A Film Aesthetics
8. Imaginary Faces: Aliens, Monsters, and Otherness
9. Automatic Faces: The Transcendent Visage of Trans-Humanity
10. Algorithmic Faces: Reflections on the Visage in Artistic Translation and Transition
11. Dating Faces: The Facial Space of Belonging in Online (Dating) Communities
12. Evanescent Faces: A Semiotic Investigation of Digital Memorials and Commemorative Practices
13. References