Description
Book SynopsisDavid Howes is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the editor of
The Varieties of Sensory Experience (1991), co-author of
Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell (1994), author of
Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory (2003) and general editor of the
Sensory Formations series (2003-2009).
Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Make it New! – Reforming the Senses
David Howes (Concordia University, Canada) 1. The Social Life of the Senses: Ordering and Disordering the Modern Sensorium
Tim Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 2. Urban Sensations: A Retrospective of Multisensory Drift Alex Rhys-Taylor
(Goldsmiths University, UK) 3. The Senses in the Marketplace: Commercial Aesthetics for a Suburban Age
Adam Mack (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA) 4. The Senses in Religion: Pluralism, Technology and Change
Isaac A. Weiner (Ohio State University, USA) 5. The Senses in Philosophy and Science: From Sensation to Computation
Mathew Nudds (University of Warwick, UK) 6. Medicine and the Senses: Bodies, Technologies and the Empowerment of the Patient
Anamaria Iosif Ross (independent scholar) 7. The Senses in Literature: From the Modernist Shock of Sensation to Postcolonial and Virtual Voices
Ralf Hertel (University of Hamburg, Germany) 8. Art and the Senses: The Avant-Garde Challenge to the Visual Arts
Hannah Higgins (University of Illinois Chicago, USA) 9. Sensory Media: Virtual Worlds and the Training of Perception
Michael Bull (University of Sussex, UK) Notes Bibliography Notes on contributors Index
