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Duke University Press The Cry of the Senses
Book SynopsisIn The Cry of the Senses, Ren Ellis Neyra examines the imaginative possibility for sound and poetics to foster new modes of sensorial solidarity in the Caribbean Americas. Weaving together the black radical tradition with Caribbean and Latinx performance, cinema, music, and literature, Ellis Neyra highlights the ways Latinx and Caribbean sonic practices challenge antiblack, colonial, post-Enlightenment, and humanist epistemologies. They locate and address the sonic in its myriad manifestations-across genres and forms, in a legal trial, and in the art and writing of Xandra Ibarra, the Fania All-Stars, Beatriz Santiago MuÑoz, Édouard Glissant, and Eduardo Corral-while demonstrating how it operates as a raucous form of diasporic dissent and connectivity. Throughout, Ellis Neyra emphasizes Caribbean and Latinx sensorial practices while attuning readers to the many forms of blackness and queerness. Tracking the sonic through their method of multisensorial, poetic listening, Ellis Neyra shows how attending to the senses can inspire alternate, ethical ways of collective listening and being.Trade Review“In this insightful and creative work, Ren Ellis Neyra centers affect against mandates to perform Latinidad as positivist, representational, and recuperative. Offering substantive methodological, theoretical, and analytical contributions, The Cry of the Senses is primed to reorient the direction of Latinx studies.” -- Leticia Alvarado, author of * Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production *“The Cry of the Senses is at once a poetic, disruptive, and critically demanding work. Ren Ellis Neyra theorizes the ways in which sensorial and material inventiveness, improvisation, and experimental ruptures are primary forms of thought and resistance in the Caribbean. It is a rare and profoundly pleasurable event when a critical work is exemplary of the material practices it explores, itself an eruption, a detour and a break. The work's poetic, expansive theorizing is promiscuous, high-low, feral, committed, and sly. It is a marvelous rearrangement of anticolonial frequencies and geologies, and a delight.” -- Beatriz Santiago Muñoz“This is a poetic and thought-provoking study.... The Cry of the Senses represents an important contribution to Caribbean and Latinx studies.” -- Michael Niblett * Journal of American Studies *“The Cry of the Senses shows—and, to some extent, argues—that the tools of poetics can be deployed to different ends, in non-totalizing ways. . . . Ellis Neyra demonstrates the creative potential and the conceptual excitement enabled by a more situated, more embodied response to, and examination of, literary and other texts.” -- Sarah Dowling * Poetics *“The Cry of the Senses offers a compelling elaboration of poetics through a Latinx, Caribbean, and African diasporic archive. . . . This is also a beautiful book in its own right that performs what it theorizes: poetic listening to a multifaceted archive that articulates worlds until now only imagined.” -- Pamela Zamora Quesada * Chiricú Journal *“Rejecting the white, Western focus on reason and the individual, the author foregrounds brownness, Afro-Latinidad, and Blackness to undermine racist and colonialist world views. . . . [The Cry of the Senses] is a rich and relevant text. Recommended.” * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: The Ground? xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Cry Bomba 1 1. "¡Anormales!": Unruly Audition in Performances of 1970s Salsa 27 2. "I have been forced to hear a lot": The FALN, The Masses Are Asses, and the Sounds, Shapes, and Speeds of Puerto Rican Defiance 55 3. Sensorial Errancy in Beatriz Santiago Munoz's Cinema 91 4. Slow Lighting, Ecstatic Mourning, and Migratory Refuge 129 Coda, in Three: "fifty-two plastic bombs exploding as one, thundered against the sky" 163 Notes 171 Bibliography 203 Index 217
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Five Senses
Book SynopsisMarginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The fragile empirical world, long resistant to our attempts to contain and catalog it, is disappearing beneath the relentless accumulations of late capitalist society and information technology. Data has replaced sensory pleasure, we are less interested in the taste of a fine wine than in the description on the bottle''s label. What are we, and what do we really know, when we have forgotten that our senses can describe a taste more accurately than language ever could? The book won the inaugural Prix Médicis Essai in 1985. The Revelations edition includes an introductionTrade ReviewFinding a voice that is brilliantly sustained, warm and assured, Margaret Sankey and Peter Cowley meet the challenges of Serres' shifts of register between prose poetry and high-frequency allusions to philosophy and the sciences and literature classical and modern. * Max Deutscher, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Australia *Some may claim that Serres's works are impossible to translate due to their complex word play, neologisms and erratic style. Despite this, Margaret Sankey and Peter Cowley should be commended for their mammoth efforts and superb translation. * Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy *Every page is alive with rich descriptions of feeling, sensing, apprehending, engaging, living... this translation, like all of Serres' work that we have in English, is a banquet, a feast for thought... * New Formations *There are then some wonderfully compelling, suggestive, and exciting passages in this book...a rich plea for a treatment of sensing as an always incomplete mixing of souls and objects. * Senses & Society *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Steven Connor (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 1. Veils 2. Boxes 3. Tables 4. Visit 5. Joy Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Five Senses
Book SynopsisWriting against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, this book demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience.Trade ReviewFinding a voice that is brilliantly sustained, warm and assured, Margaret Sankey and Peter Cowley meet the challenges of Serres' shifts of register between prose poetry and high-frequency allusions to philosophy and the sciences and literature classical and modern. -- Max Deutscher, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Australia‘Some may claim that Serres's works are impossible to translate due to their complex word play, neologisms and erratic style. Despite this, Margaret Sankey and Peter Cowley should be commended for their mammoth efforts and superb translation.' -- Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy... Every page is alive with rich descriptions of feeling, sensing, apprehending, engaging, living... this translation, like all of Serres' work that we have in English, is a banquet, a feast for thought... -- New FormationsThere are then some wonderfully compelling, suggestive, and exciting passages in this book...a rich plea for a treatment of sensing as an always incomplete mixing of souls and objects. I recommend it be read, perhaps with a pinch of salt. -- Senses & SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction, Steven Connor (Birkbeck, University of London, UK); 1. Veils; 2. Boxes; 3. Tables; 4. Visit; 5. Joy; Index.
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Duke University Press The Cry of the Senses
Book SynopsisIn The Cry of the Senses, Ren Ellis Neyra examines the imaginative possibility for sound and poetics to foster new modes of sensorial solidarity in the Caribbean Americas. Weaving together the black radical tradition with Caribbean and Latinx performance, cinema, music, and literature, Ellis Neyra highlights the ways Latinx and Caribbean sonic practices challenge antiblack, colonial, post-Enlightenment, and humanist epistemologies. They locate and address the sonic in its myriad manifestations—across genres and forms, in a legal trial, and in the art and writing of Xandra Ibarra, the Fania All-Stars, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Édouard Glissant, and Eduardo Corral—while demonstrating how it operates as a raucous form of diasporic dissent and connectivity. Throughout, Ellis Neyra emphasizes Caribbean and Latinx sensorial practices while attuning readers to the many forms of blackness and queerness. Tracking the sonic through their method of multisensorial, pTrade Review“In this insightful and creative work, Ren Ellis Neyra centers affect against mandates to perform Latinidad as positivist, representational, and recuperative. Offering substantive methodological, theoretical, and analytical contributions, The Cry of the Senses is primed to reorient the direction of Latinx studies.” -- Leticia Alvarado, author of * Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production *“The Cry of the Senses is at once a poetic, disruptive, and critically demanding work. Ren Ellis Neyra theorizes the ways in which sensorial and material inventiveness, improvisation, and experimental ruptures are primary forms of thought and resistance in the Caribbean. It is a rare and profoundly pleasurable event when a critical work is exemplary of the material practices it explores, itself an eruption, a detour and a break. The work's poetic, expansive theorizing is promiscuous, high-low, feral, committed, and sly. It is a marvelous rearrangement of anticolonial frequencies and geologies, and a delight.” -- Beatriz Santiago Muñoz“This is a poetic and thought-provoking study.... The Cry of the Senses represents an important contribution to Caribbean and Latinx studies.” -- Michael Niblett * Journal of American Studies *“The Cry of the Senses shows—and, to some extent, argues—that the tools of poetics can be deployed to different ends, in non-totalizing ways. . . . Ellis Neyra demonstrates the creative potential and the conceptual excitement enabled by a more situated, more embodied response to, and examination of, literary and other texts.” -- Sarah Dowling * Poetics *“The Cry of the Senses offers a compelling elaboration of poetics through a Latinx, Caribbean, and African diasporic archive. . . . This is also a beautiful book in its own right that performs what it theorizes: poetic listening to a multifaceted archive that articulates worlds until now only imagined.” -- Pamela Zamora Quesada * Chiricú Journal *“Rejecting the white, Western focus on reason and the individual, the author foregrounds brownness, Afro-Latinidad, and Blackness to undermine racist and colonialist world views. . . . [The Cry of the Senses] is a rich and relevant text. Recommended.” * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface: The Ground? xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Cry Bomba 1 1. "¡Anormales!": Unruly Audition in Performances of 1970s Salsa 27 2. "I have been forced to hear a lot": The FALN, The Masses Are Asses, and the Sounds, Shapes, and Speeds of Puerto Rican Defiance 55 3. Sensorial Errancy in Beatriz Santiago Munoz's Cinema 91 4. Slow Lighting, Ecstatic Mourning, and Migratory Refuge 129 Coda, in Three: "fifty-two plastic bombs exploding as one, thundered against the sky" 163 Notes 171 Bibliography 203 Index 217
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Johns Hopkins University Press A Tour of the Senses
Book SynopsisThis entertaining introduction to sensory science is a clever mix of research findings and real-world stories that helps us understand the complex processes that turn sensory stimuli into sophisticated brain responses.Trade ReviewA fine guide recommended for health and science general-interest collections. Midwest Book Review When Henshaw told a casual acquaintance that he was writing a book about the senses, the response was 'The five senses?' He was quick to reply that there are more than five, and one goal of this book is to convince the reader that that is the case... One of the pluses of this book is its conversational tone and the use of anecdotes and examples. Choice A blend of research findings and real-world anecdotes about people's sensory experiences enlivens this historical view of the science behind perception. Science News This is an interesting book-an ideal gift for young biologists. -- Alan Cadogan The Biologist A Tour of the Senses is a fun book, which may be of interest to anyone who's ever wondered how the eye or ear works. -- Matthew R. Longo American Journal of Human BiologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: Stimulus1. Electromagnetic Stimuli2. Chemical Stimuli3. Mechanical Stimuli4. The Science of SensationPart 2: Sensation5. Vision6. The Chemical Senses7. The Mechanical SensesPart 3: Perception8. Remembering the Present9. Perception and Culture10. Perception and EducationBibliographyIndex
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Duke University Press Senses Without Subjects
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BookLife Publishing Senses
Book SynopsisFrom the animal world to the forces that make things go, young minds have big questions about how the world works. The answers to these questions wait in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Unlock the world around you with STEM and Me.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd The Sun of Hereafter * Ebb of the Senses
Book SynopsisAna Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the Ceausescu regime, Blandiana became known for her daring, outspoken poems as well as for her courageous defence of ethical values. Over the years, her works have become the symbol of an ethical consciousness that refuses to be silenced by a totalitarian government. This new translation by Viorica Patea and Paul Scott Derrick combines her two collections, The Sun of Hereafter (2000) and Ebb of the Senses (2004), both written after the fall of the Iron Curtain while Blandiana was actively and selflessly involved in the public sphere as President of the Civic Alliance (1990-2001), a non-political organisation that made possible Romania's integration into the European Union. These two books mark a turning point in Blandiana's poetic evolution: they lead towards a new conception of poetry as a reflection on being that culminates in My Native Land A4 (first published in Romania in 2010 and published in English by Bloodaxe in 2014). After 1989, the motifs of her poetry remain the same but they acquire a more universal dimension. For Blandiana, the writer is less a creator than a witness of the world she inhabits. She believes that poetry records the experience of one's time and insists that it is 'not a series of events, but a sequence of visions'. Blandiana's poetry oscillates between the sensual perception of the world and a nostalgia for transcendence. Enigmatic definitions alternate with a series of coded questions charged with melancholic gravity. In fact, her poetry could be seen as a quest for definitions reached through a series of questions. Her poems describe the degradation of humanistic values and the different ways in which the individual is threatened. They express a yearning for a state of primordial purity and an awareness of destructive forces which the self must confront.Trade Review'Blandiana is a pure lyricist, focused entirely on the event of how imagination finds words and rhythms that make certain mental experiences memorable. Her poems characteristically achieve strange precisions by having pervasive metaphors unfold her sense of "sacred void" as negative plenitude.' - Charles Altieri, UC at Berkeley -- Charles Altieri * UC at Berkeley *
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Alpha Edition The five senses; or, Gateways to knowledge
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of
Book SynopsisAnne C. Vila is Professor of French in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She is the author of Enlightenment and Pathology: Sensibility in the Literature and Medicine of Eighteenth-century France (1998), as well as many articles on the body in the culture of the Enlightenment. She is currently completing a book entitled Singular Beings: Passions and Pathologies of the Scholar in France, 1720-1840.Trade Review[A] vital introduction both to the key problematic of the age and to that of history itself. It bears witness to the complex dance of the senses and the intellect that characterizes eighteenth-century culture in so many of its forms … The pages are silky and smooth, and its illustrations and front cover are produced in the most luxurious colour. This book is a pleasure to look at and to handle; it is a wonderfully concrete reminder of the significance of the senses in the production of history. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Powers, Pleasures, and Perils of the Senses in the Enlightenment Era Anne C.Vila (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 1. The Social Life of the Senses: A New Approach to Eighteenth-Century Politics and Public Life Sophia Rosenfeld (University of Virginia, USA) 2. Urban Sensations: Motion and Commotion in Eighteenth-Century Cities Clare Brant (King’s College London, UK) 3. The Senses in the Marketplace: Coffee, Chintz, and Sofas Joan DeJean (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 4. The Senses In Religion: Listening To God in the Eighteenth Century Phyllis Mack (Rutgers University, USA) 5. The Senses in Philosophy and Science: Blindness and Insight Lissa Roberts (University of Twente, the Netherlands) 6. Medicine and the Senses: The Perception of Essences Patrick Singy (Union College, USA) 7. The Senses in Literature: Pleasures of Imagining in Poetry and Prose Rowan Rose Boyson (King's College London, UK) 8. Art and the Senses: Experiencing the Arts in the Age of Sensibility Sarah Cohen (University at Albany, SUNY, USA) and Downing A. Thomas (University of Iowa, USA) 9. Sensory Media: The Enlightenment in the Atlantic World Richard Cullen Rath (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, USA) Notes Bibliography Notes on contributors Index
£35.38
Cambridge University Press Disenchanting the Senses
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WW Norton & Co Education of the Senses The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe most learned, as well as the wittiest survey of human sexuality ever to be published. New York Times
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Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. Baby Loves the Five Senses Boxed Set
Book SynopsisIgnite your baby''s curiosity about the world with big, brainy science for the littlest listeners.Accurate enough to be endorsed by an expert, yet simple enough for baby, this clever board book boxed set explores the science of hearing, vision, taste, touch, and smell. Beautiful, visually stimulating illustrations and age-appropriate language encourage baby''s sense of wonder. Parents and caregivers may learn a thing or two, as well!Includes all five Baby Loves the Five Senses board books (Baby Loves Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste and Touch) and a growth chart to measure all of Baby''s important milestones.
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The University of Chicago Press Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
Book SynopsisWhat is the role of the senses in the creation and reception of poetry? This work traces the path of the aesthetic in search of an explanation for the role of poetry in culture. It draws on readings from the ancient Greeks to the postmoderns to explain how poetry creates meaning between persons.
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Oxford University Press The Proust Effect The Senses as Doorways to Lost Memories
Book SynopsisThe senses can be powerful triggers for memories of our past, eliciting a range of both positive and negative emotions. In this book we explore what is so special about sense memories, how they work in the brain, how they can enrich our daily life, and even how they can help those suffering from problems involving memory.
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HarperCollins Publishers The Forgotten Sense
Book SynopsisHuman olfaction the sense of smell enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments more enjoyable. However, olfaction is one of our least explored sensory systems. Until now.Smells and scents are the colour that enrich our experience of life. Ask anyone to reflect on their sense of smell, and they immediately start talking. First there are discussions about food and wine, but pretty quickly they move on to personal topics: about the smells that evoke memories of childhood, dead relatives, pregnancy, love and sex. When people talk about their sense of smell, they also tell us something about themselves, their feelings, thoughts and relationships. Thus, the sense of smell not only reflects the chemical world outside us, but also bears witness to our inner world, our feelings and thoughts.The Forgotten Sense explores the unknown mind and how it shapes people: Why can smells evoke such strong memories? How much can body odors control who you fall in love with? How sensitive is the human sense of smell? In many ways these questions are on the very forefront of our understanding, but Dr Jonas Olofsson has spent years studying the least understood of our senses. And he has discovered that it is actually possible to improve and refine one's sense of smell, to develop it into a more useful tool to bring a powerful immediacy to your life.
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Sense and Sensibility Seasons Edition Fall
Book SynopsisSense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen, one of literature’s most beloved stories of love, marriage, and social mores, is now available in a fine exclusive collector’s edition featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Each collectible volume will be the perfect addition to any well-appointed library.The Sense and Sensibility Seasons Edition--Fall: Presents Jane Austen’s beloved classic, widely regarded as a preeminent example of Romantic epistolary fiction, and after Pride and Prejudice, solidifying Austen’s place in literature’s pantheon of great writers Explores such important themes as the legal ramifications of love and marriage in high society, sense (rationalism) vs. sensibility (emotionalism), gender roles in the eighteenth century, and the deleterious effects
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University of Texas Press The Senses of Democracy
Book SynopsisTracing the evolution of sense work in literary texts, the visual arts, periodical culture, and history, this paradigm-shifting book explores how embodied cognition helps define democratic practice and rebellion, cultural crisis, and social change.Trade ReviewAn extraordinary book…Masiello's book is a beautiful exploration of the long history of [the mighty power of managing one's own senses] in Latin America. * Iberoamericana *Masiello's work is undoubtedly persuasive and engaging throughout, offering a refreshing method to pursue studies of politics and emotion. * Bulletin of Hispanic Studies *[Masiello's] local scenes of sense work successfully make the case for a new approach to Latin American literature, art, and culture grounded in the aesthetics and politics of sense perception. They also serve as anchor points for one of Masiello’s subsidiary claims: that the work of the senses in culture is best understood when one turns way from universalist generalizations to focus on localized regimes of perception. In this way, The Senses of Democracy extends an invitation to other theorists and scholars to continue mining the local and regional specificity of sense perception in Latin America, in contexts and time periods that are not covered in this book. * Revista de Esudios Hispánicos *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Sensing the Early Republic Chapter 2. Troubled by Gender: Technology and Perception in the Women’s Nineteenth Century Chapter 3. Collective Synesthesia: The 1920s Avant-Garde Chapter 4. A Politics of Perception against the State Chapter 5. By Way of a Conclusion: A Sense of the “Now” Notes Works Cited Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Senses in Antiquity Paperback Set
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HardPress Publishing The Physics and Philosophy of the Senses
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Cheriton Children's Books The Senses
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Cambridge University Press Disenchanting the Senses
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Elsevier Science Development of the Senses
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Taylor & Francis Senses and Sensation
Book SynopsisSenses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources offers a comprehensive collection of key writings essential to anyone wishing to gain a critical understanding of sensory studies. The four volumes include 101 essays from leading scholars in the humanities, social sciences, arts and design, biology, psychology and the neurosciences.Drawing upon historical and contemporary texts from a wide range of sources, this set is inspired by the sensory turn in the humanities, social sciences and fine arts which has challenged the monopoly that psychology formerly held over the study of senses and sensation. It also builds upon the revolution in psychology and the neurosciences which has led to an increased emphasis on the interaction and integration of the senses, in place of the one-sense-at-a-time approach.Ordered by discipline, the volumes cover geography and anthropology, history and sociology, biology, psychology and neuroscience, and art and design. Each volume is separately introduced an
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University of Texas Press The Senses of Democracy
Book SynopsisTracing the evolution of sense work in literary texts, the visual arts, periodical culture, and history, this paradigm-shifting book explores how embodied cognition helps define democratic practice and rebellion, cultural crisis, and social change.Trade ReviewAn extraordinary book…Masiello's book is a beautiful exploration of the long history of [the mighty power of managing one's own senses] in Latin America. * Iberoamericana *Masiello's work is undoubtedly persuasive and engaging throughout, offering a refreshing method to pursue studies of politics and emotion. * Bulletin of Hispanic Studies *[Masiello's] local scenes of sense work successfully make the case for a new approach to Latin American literature, art, and culture grounded in the aesthetics and politics of sense perception. They also serve as anchor points for one of Masiello’s subsidiary claims: that the work of the senses in culture is best understood when one turns way from universalist generalizations to focus on localized regimes of perception. In this way, The Senses of Democracy extends an invitation to other theorists and scholars to continue mining the local and regional specificity of sense perception in Latin America, in contexts and time periods that are not covered in this book. * Revista de Esudios Hispánicos *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Sensing the Early Republic Chapter 2. Troubled by Gender: Technology and Perception in the Women’s Nineteenth Century Chapter 3. Collective Synesthesia: The 1920s Avant-Garde Chapter 4. A Politics of Perception against the State Chapter 5. By Way of a Conclusion: A Sense of the “Now” Notes Works Cited Index
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Cambridge University Press Introduction to the Senses
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John Murray Press Super Senses
Book SynopsisHow do you sniff out danger? What is a sense of direction or a gut instinct? You know about your five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch. But recent research has shown that we actually have at least thirty-two. We take our senses for granted but what would be possible if we properly understood how they all work? Award-winning science writer Emma Young has spent over a decade finding out, and in Super Senses she takes us on an exhilarating sensory journey, revealing how we taste things without using our tongues, why swearing is good for us and why both chocolate and rollercoasters can help you fall in love.Using the very latest cutting-edge research, she explains the exploits of record-breaking freedivers, whirling dervishes, super-tasters, stock market millionaires, and many more. Discover how touch can ease pain, how taking your pulse can make you fitter and why Abba''s Dancing Queen sounds different in Bolivia. Sharing surprising Trade ReviewAfter reading this fascinating book you'll never think about your senses in quite the same way again -- CLAUDIA HAMMONDAbsolutely fascinating . . . meticulously researched, expertly written, and packed with so many engrossing nuggets, every page is a remarkable revelation. Young has given me new understanding - and profound respect - for my incredible sensory body -- GAIA VINCEAn awe-inspiring guide to our sensual world that will leave you in wonder at your own astonishing perceptual powers. With cutting-edge science and extraordinary personal stories, Emma Young offers evidence-based strategies to protect and fine-tune many of those abilities - with potentially life-changing consequences. Along the way, Super Senses busts some of the most enduring myths about the human body and mind -- DAVID ROBSON, author of THE INTELLIGENCE TRAPThis book changed the way I sense the world. I'd say eye-opening but that's too limiting: this is sense-opening stuff -- ROWAN HOOPER, author of SUPERHUMANA vivid, multi-sensory journey through farflung landscapes of human experience . . . packed with scientific revelations and compelling stories . . . A sensory delight that made my world a richer place -- Jo Marchant, author of CURE and THE HUMAN COSMOSFascinating . . . unlocks the secrets of our amazing brains and bodies * Daily Mail *Packed with fascinating information and highly readable * Human Givens vol 28.1 *
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Collective Ink In The Realm of the Senses: A Materialist Theory
Book SynopsisThe five physical senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching have been held to underpin the complexity of human experience ever since Aristotle first theorised about how they worked. Classical and scholastic philosophy up to the time of the European Enlightenment relegated their operations to its margins, viewing them as at best a distraction from higher thinking, and at worst a positive deception. Paradoxically, what one could not objectively know, the products of the mind, were accorded precedence over the concrete. From the Romantic era onwards, the senses moved to the centre of speculative thought, and the various dialectical currents of philosophy after Hegel made them interdependent with the intellectual function, which was held to derive most or all of its authority from them. This tendency has continued down to the sensualist, hedonist and anti-intellectual currents of our own day. In this theoretical consideration of what has been done to the senses in modern experience, Stuart Walton subjects the life of the senses to a further materialist turn, one that refuses a spiritualisation of the material realm, to which contemporary discourses of the body have often fallen prey, while at the same time preserving sensuality from being delivered once again to a sterile idealism.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A History of the Senses From Antiquity to
Book SynopsisThis path--breaking book examines our attitudes to the senses from antiquity through to the present day. Robert Jutte explores a wealth of different traditions, images, metaphors and ideas that have survived through time and describes how sensual impressions change the way in which we experience the world.Trade Review'Jutte’s ambitious yet accessible book offers a lucid and judicious summary of research in this new and expanding field, as well as making a contribution of its own, distinguishing three periods in the history of the senses and offering intelligent speculations about future developments.' Peter Burke, Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge 'Stimulating and impressive... In this pioneering study Jutte unfolds a panorama of how societies have been fascinated or unsettled by any of the five senses, and invites the reader to respond with curiosity, humour and profound interest to follow through his discussion from antiquity to visions of the future.' Dr Ulinka Rublack, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Tuning Up Conspicuous Manifestations - (Un-)Timely Reflections. Part I Senses and Historicity. 1. Approaching the Superhistorical. Part II The Traditional Order of the Sense: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Era. 2.Conceptions: The Sensorium. 3.Classifications: The Hierarchy of the Senses. 4. Representations: Allegories. 5. Practices: The Senses and their Ailments. Part III From the World of the Senses to the World of Reason. (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries). 6. Philosophical Sensualism in the Age of Sensibility. 7.The Senses and Aesthetics. 8. The Education of the Senses. 9. The Transformation of the Senses by Industrialization and Technology. 10. Experimental Physiology and the Separation of the Senses. Part IV The 'Rediscovery' of the Senses in the Twentieth Century. 11. Touching - or The New Pleasure in the Body. 12. Tasting - or What do Fast Food and Nouvelle Cuisine Share in Common?. 13. Scenting - or From Deodorization to Reodorization. 14. Listening Effects - or The Art and Power of Noise. 15. Ways of Seeing -or The Human Rights of the Eye. 16. Psi-Phenomena - or The Exploration of Extra-Sensory Perception. Outlook. 17. Cyberspace and the Future of the Senses. Notes. Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Forgotten Sense Meditations on Touch
Book SynopsisA series of belles lettres-style reflections on touch and its role in our life, art, and culture.
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) Shakespeare and the Senses
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Walker Books Ltd Feel Your Happy A Celebration of the Senses
Book Synopsis"A stand-out book." ZOE SUGGA joyful celebration of the senses and how to cope with sensory overload, from the much-loved creator of The Happy NewsEvery day there are new things to explore. All around us there is lots to see, hear, smell, touch and taste. But sometimes it can feel overwhelming like everything is TOO MUCH. Everyone feels this way sometimes, but with a little help from Sloth and the people you love, there is always a way to FEEL YOUR HAPPY!Full of joyful illustrations and practical ideas, this is an accessible and friendly celebration of the senses - and how to manage sensory overload."Incredible and inclusive." RACHEL HAMBLETON @parttimeworkingmummy
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Clarendon Press The Seventh Sense Francis Hutchenson and EighteenthCentury British Aesthetics Francis Hutchenson and EighteenthCentury British Aesthetics ... and EighteenthCentury British Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThe Seventh Sense is the definitive study of the aesthetic theory of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Francis Hutcheson, arguably the founder of the modern discipline of aesthetics, and one of the most important figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. This new edition brings Peter Kivy''s seminal work back into print, substantially expanded by the addition of seven essays, which deal primarily with Hutcheson''s relation to other thinkers, and his influence on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century aesthetics.Part I of The Seventh Sense presents a detailed analysis of Hutcheson''s aesthetic theory. Part II traces the considerable influence of Hutcheson''s theory up to the early years of the nineteenth century. Part III is a new and substantial addition to the original work, collecting Peter Kivy''s essays on this topic since the first edition appeared, which deal primarily with Hutcheson, David Hume, and Thomas Reid. Philosophers of art, historians of philosophy, and historians working on eighteenth-century European art and culture will find this new edition an invaluable resource.Trade Review... [Peter Kivy's] book emerges as the leading authority study on Hutchenson and Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics. * Philosophical Inquiry *Table of ContentsI. JUST BEFORE HUTCHESON ; VII. RATIONALIST AESTHETICS IN THE AGE OF HUTCHESON ; XIII. A LOGIC OF TASTE
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The University of Chicago Press The Forgotten Sense Meditations on Touch
Book SynopsisA series of belles lettres-style reflections on touch and its role in our life, art, and culture.
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Penned in the Margins Love All That OK
Book SynopsisLove / All That /& OK, an anti-confessional by experimental British poet Emily Critchley, brings together a diverse range of work previously published in chapbooks since 2004, and includes new material from the sequences 'Poems for Luke', 'The Sonnets' and 'Poems for Other People'.Trade ReviewReally intelligent, coquette, fuck-you work - a space for a new kind of anti-misogynism in poetry. - Marianne Morris High electrics and considerable. - Allen Fisher [Emily Critchley] has incorporated influences from popular culture and from a more-streetwise feminist critique. [H]er poetry - is combative, intellectual and probing but this seems tempered by an upbeat and more popular sense of engagement, which makes her unusual and interesting. - Stride Magazine Her formally adventurous poetry implicates its author in, then deftly upends, the conventions - political, sexual, intellectual, and emotional - that threaten to diminish the purview of any fierce, bright, 21st-century female. Critchley practises a brisk vernacular anti-lyric, often in the name of love and always in a language that (pounding Pound) 'hath 'ham' innit.' As an antidote to a future that 'may be very wrong,' these poems are absolutely right. - Jean DayTable of ContentsPoems for Luke I have been thinking Supper is done Honeymoon After Tikrit The Sonnets A Final Sonnet (for Luke) 'Dear Luke, It's 5.15 p.m.' 'We've been indulgent... ' 'The experiment was me trying...' 'I took it for a "door"...' 'In summer...' 'You jerk you didn't...' 'Luke, I can no longer...' 'God bless you Luke...' 'Not home to myself this evening...' 'O stayer~putter...' 'You're such a flake...' Avec fond memories Ain't gonna work on our farm no more Poems for Other People For Susana Gardner For Seaton (after Ashbery) For Josh (after 'oooo the air is full of thought') from Hopeful for Love are th'Improverish'd of Faith 'Content-Specific' My notes / Notes about me Perhaps Other Reasons To his Uncool Mistress (after Marvell) The Triumph of Misogyny from Some Curious Thing Past Filmic Tense 'the throwback to the tunnel...' 'otherwise one could ask...' 'if e.g. in the past...' 'While the past 30 years...' 'here the arches may narrow...' 'less a port from the storm...' Past Mythic Tense 6 (The Avaunt Garde) 'otherwise one might have to ask...' from Who handles one over the backlash Waiting When Expectation Relinquishes Underneath Itself Of All The Surprises: A Love Poem for Seaton from When I Say I Believe Women Dear America The sense of falling from I just want you to know that we can still be friends In translation 8 In this world from How To Make Millions cuts that I do & mouth a lot Happy [not enervated] from The Dirt Glitch Land Alter Affair Not misrepresenting but even producing being produced by its very nature (Re.vision)
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Penguin Random House LLC The Merging of the Senses Cognitive Neuroscience
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William Morrow & Company The Fall of Arthur
Book SynopsisThe Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur, king of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skillful achievement in the use of Old English alliterative meter, in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur’s expedition overseas into distant heathen lands, of Guinevere’s flight from Camelot, of the great sea battle on Arthur’s return to Britain, in the portrait of the traitor Mordred, in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle.Unhappily, The Fall of Arthur was one of several long narrative poems that Tolkien abandoned. He evidently began it in the 1930s, and it was sufficiently advanced for him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of 1934 and urgently pressed him, You simply must finish it! But in vain: he abandoned it at some unkn
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University of Chicago Press Shakespeare and the Senses
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Information Age Publishing Sensuous Curriculum: Politics and the Senses in
Book SynopsisThe sensuous is the human experience, unfolding our everyday experiences and articulating our affects. Without sensory information, we could neither know nor be. This is because we gain information through our senses and interpret that information as perceptions, the sociocultural frames used to analyze that input. This is the case regardless of how a sensorium is constructed, a more limited Western five senses model for example. It is also the case no matter how senses are defined, they ways they are expressed, or the ways in which they are understood to function. Further, because there are often greater differences between members within a particular group than divergences between groups, how one attends to and acts in light of sensory information is always a polyphonic tapestry constructed on the warp of the sociocultural and the weft of individualism. Education, the transfer of information between people, animals, things, and ecologies, is therefore a sensory endeavor.Sensuous curriculum is one means of describing this deeply layered intersection of educational ways of being and knowing. In many ways inverting how questions of curriculum are often framed, Sensuous Curriculum: Politics and the Senses in Education foregrounds how sensory understandings are forms of educational, relational politics. Bringing the depth and complexity of sensory studies firmly into curriculum and foundational studies of education, contributors to this volume address this educational and political intersection from a wide variety of theoretical and practical perspectives that are always embodied and material. Approached in an academic yet accessible manner, Sensuous Curriculum addresses key questions about what it means to educate and the ideas and ideals render those understandings sensible. This variety, depth, and accessibility combine to make Sensuous Curriculum an important resource for those interested in critical studies of the senses in educational ecologies and holistic education. It is a text as at home in theory and methods doctoral courses as it is in undergraduate courses for preservice teachers and will be of interest to those searching for rich ways to conceptualize education outside of a standards-centric perspective.Trade ReviewThis collection engages and challenges readers to think more deeply about questions of curriculum in connection to the sensuous in ways not typically considered, existing multi-dimensionally in transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and cross- disciplinary work. This compelling, intellectually stimulating, exhilarating volume is a canonical contribution everyone must study."" — Theodorea Regina Berry Professor and Chair, African American Studies College of Social Sciences, San Jose State University""Dr. Gershon’s edited collection, Sensuous Curriculum: Politics and the Senses in Education, makes the case for corrective action. By exploring the sensory as human experience, curriculum, and political, the authors of this volume offer iterations and variations for interrupting the ignor(anc)es of the sensorium in education and the body in making sense."" — M. Francyne Huckaby Associate Dean, TCU School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor, Curriculum Studies, TCU College of Education & Center for Public Education""I thoroughly enjoyed sensing this book. This collection defies the conventional popular trends that sit inside the classic curriculum vinyl on our bookshelves. And in Aokian fashion, Walter Gershon has successfully brought together an ensemble of curriculum scholars who dare us to improvise and replay the possibilities and limitations of educational research as a tantalization of our senses. The research put forth in this collection not only promises to the break barriers of our thinking, but also makes significant contributions to and beyond post-humanism, new materialism, curriculum and affect theory. All serious scholars—artists, teacher educators, teachers, graduate students, community activists—of curriculum studies will want to purchase a copy of this carefully, crafted, curated sensuous collection. Without reservation...put the needle on their record, cause I am one of their biggest fans."" — Nicholas Ng-A-Fook Professor, Director of Teacher Education, Indigenous Teacher Education, Co-Director of the Réseau de Savoir sur l’Equité/Equity Knowledge Network, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of the Senses in the Modern
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
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Balboa Press Beyond the Five Senses Stories on Life and Spirit from International ClairvoyantMedium Bernice RobeQuinn
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Vernon Art and Science The Senses and Memory
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Edinburgh University Press Hardy Conrad and the Senses
Book SynopsisThis book readsthe highly descriptive impressionist writings of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound.
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Religion Death and the Senses
Book SynopsisThis edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore 6 physical and 3 socio-cultural senses in relation to death and dying: the senses of sight, of smell, of sound, of taste, of touch, of movement, of decency, of humour, and of loss.
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Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. Baby Loves the Five Senses: Hearing!
Book SynopsisFrom the duo behind the Baby Loves Science series comes a STEM first concepts spinoff perfect for little scientists discovering their own amazing powers! Accurate enough to satisfy an expert, yet simple enough for baby, this book explores the world of sound?what it is, how it''s made, and how Baby hears it. Baby also learns that some ears use technological help, and some people use ways other than sound to communicate. Beautiful, visually stimulating illustrations complement age-appropriate language to encourage baby?s sense of wonder. Parents and caregivers may learn a thing or two, as well!
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BookLife Publishing Senses
Book SynopsisBrian the Brain will help you learn everything about your senses in this fun-filled book. On your marks! Ready, Set STEM!
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Headline Publishing Group The Power of Your Senses: Why Coffee Tastes Better in a Red Cup and Other Life-Changing Science
'Brilliant ... Jones reveals how his techniques can be used to enhance your life' Daily Mail AS HEARD ON THE CHRIS EVANS SHOW Which scents can lower stress?What music can make you more productive?And why does coffee taste better from a red cup?Our senses have a powerful effect on how we think, feel and behave; yet we don't use them to anywhere near their full potential.Using his extensive knowledge of sensory science, multisensory expert Russell Jones shows you how to make small changes to your day and experience life like you never have before.So, whether you want to feel energised in the morning, get the most from your exercise, be efficient at work, really enjoy your food or have the most restful night's sleep possible, read this book and discover the real power of your senses.Previously published as Sense.
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Cambridge University Press Archaeology and the Senses Human Experience
Book SynopsisThis book is an exciting new look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and offers an argument for how the discipline can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience. Yannis Hamilakis shows how, despite its intensely physical engagement with the material traces of the past, archaeology has mostly neglected multi-sensory experience, instead prioritising isolated vision and relying on the Western hierarchy of the five senses. In place of this limited view of experience, Hamilakis proposes a sensorial archaeology that can unearth the lost, suppressed, and forgotten sensory and affective modalities of humans. Using Bronze Age Crete as a case study, Hamilakis shows how sensorial memory can help us rethink questions ranging from the production of ancestral heritage to large-scale social change, and the cultural significance of monuments. Hamilakis points the way to reconstituting archaeology as a sensorial and affective multi-temporal practice.Trade Review'This book goes far beyond a study of archaeology, the past, and the traditional senses of the modern Western world. It presents an innovative strategy that, through a broad approach to a sensorially inspired archaeology, enables the past to be written as a rich and affective palimpsest, while maintaining the standards and rigors of archaeological investigation.' Ruth Tringham, University of California, Berkeley'This is an extremely well-researched book which draws heavily on philosophical, historical, and anthropological thinking but embeds it excellently within the relevant archaeological literature. It should be attractive to all students and academics who wish to challenge the conventions of archaeological interpretation - it forms an important statement that future archaeologists may in time regard as a classic.' Paul Rainbird, University of Bristol'Richly evocative, theoretically innovative, and written by a leading figure in the field, Archaeology and the Senses opens up new terrain in the anthropology of the senses. The accessibility of this book will make it a touchstone for scholars and students interested in new approaches to the interpretation of material objects.' David Sutton, Southern Illinois University'… a valuable study of cultural thinking - and a very enjoyable one to read at the same time … [Hamilakis] produces a fact-based, culturally sensitive and theoretically subtle reading which, although at first might not seem groundbreaking, is in fact exactly that.' Dimitris Plantzos, Historein'Despite the complex philosophical and historical analysis in the first half of the book, it is an accessible work that does not require specialist knowledge to decipher, something the author should be proud of.' Kay Armstrong, Antike Welt'Anyone familiar with Hamilakis' output will recognise recurrent themes in this book: memory, personhood, commensality, reflexivity, politics and, of course, the senses. Pulling these topics together, the book represents a significant statement by one of the leading thinkers within archaeology.' Jo Day, AntiquityTable of Contents1. Demolishing the museum of sensory ab/sense; 2. Archaeology, modernity, and the senses; 3. Recapturing sensorial and affective experience; 4. Senses, materiality, time: a new ontology; 5. Sensorial necro-politics: the mortuary mnemoscapes of Bronze Age Crete; 6. Why 'palaces'? Senses, memory, and the 'palatial' phenomenon in Bronze Age Crete; 7. From corporeality to sensoriality, from things to flows.
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