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To stomach the spirit The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Akua A. Banful
Published in The Senses and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Crafting a ‘senseplace’: the touch, sound and smell of graffiti The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Richard Cook
This article explores the senses of touch, sound and smell through the craft work of subcultural graffiti to develop a new understanding of place. It draws from ethnographic data collected from 18 ...
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Reading with the Senses The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Ralf Hertel
Published in The Senses and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Ghost Train: a disappearing fairground entertainment The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Charles Spence
The Ghost Train on the fairground connects pre-mechanized ghost shows (such as the Phantasmagoria and Dr. Pepper’s Ghost type illusions) that had been popular in Britain in the latter half of the 1...
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Claire-Louise Bennett, Nightflowers, Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin, May 12, 2023 – January 21, 2024 The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Madeleine Randmaa
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2024)
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Adventures in the bodily interior The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Abbie Garrington
Published in The Senses and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Picturing sensory moments: an ethnomethodological approach to cheese shop interactions The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2024-01-22 David E. Sutton
Published in The Senses and Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Attuned visibility and the ambiguity of demanding public spaces in Copenhagen The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Siri Schwabe, Ida Lerche Klaaborg, Mikkel Bille
Based on ethnographic data and mapping exercises, this article explores North West Park in Copenhagen, Denmark and asks how lighting forms perceptions of urban space. The park was inaugurated in th...
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Sarindar Dhaliwal: When I grow up I want to be the namer of paint colors The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Lex Barrie
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2024)
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Introduction: The aesthetics of tinnitus The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Marie Thompson
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2024)
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Tinnitus, speaking: listening in with Daniel Fishkin The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Monroe Street Schostal
Tinnitus, Speaking is a hybrid text – one part essay, one part interview – which demonstrates how sound artist Daniel Fishkin’s experience of tinnitus might be listened to and thought about from th...
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Tasting life and energy with the body: the biodynamic resonance of wine The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Christelle Pineau, Jean Foyer
Based on two long term research with natural and biodynamic winegrowers in France, this text returns to the principles of biodynamic agriculture in its desire to potentiate the living character of ...
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Exploring non-Western sensoria The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Xuelei Huang
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2024)
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Sensory perception in cultural studies—a review of sensorial and multisensorial heritage The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Murray Parker, Dirk H. R. Spennemann, Jennifer Bond
Following the “authorized heritage discourse” in heritage management, visual components have traditionally formed the basis of aesthetic value assessment of heritage assets. Despite being considere...
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Mapping tinnitus The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Marie Thompson
In this article, I offer a critical reflection on the production of “tinnitus maps” as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council project, Tinnitus, Auditory Knowledge and the Arts. Influence...
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The tinnital sublime The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Mack Hagood
This essay proposes the sublime as a paradigmatic concept in a Western aesthetics of tinnitus. Through critical readings of canonical works on the sublime and analysis of contemporary artistic, cin...
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Toward a sensual theory of the extended sensorium The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Sachi Sekimoto
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2024)
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New phenomenologies of pain and the re-conceptualization of health in the digital arts The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Desiree Foerster
This article explores the involvement of interoception in the multisensorial experience “Seeing is believing” by Australian artist Eugenie Lee. At the center of this piece is the experience of pain...
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Colour of Noise The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Nisha Ramayya
This is a creative response to the topic of the special issue, “The Aesthetics of Tinnitus”, blending reflections on perception and imagination, race and sociality, sci-fi and sound studies via exp...
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What blind people can teach sighted viewers about art The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Jenni Lauwrens
While sight and hearing have been privileged in the philosophical formulation of aesthetics, the significance of touch to the experience of art has not enjoyed much attention at all. In order to di...
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Hiroshi Sugimoto – The Descent of the Kasuga Spirit The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Changhao Li
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 18, No. 3, 2023)
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Charlie Haden’s earplugs The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Daniel Fishkin
“Charlie Haden’s Earplugs” explores how tinnitus, hyperacusis and misophonia have shaped the musicality and sonic production of the jazz bassist and composer. While Haden maintained a negative atti...
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English Heritage Gardener-Led Immersive Sensory Tours The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Annette Kern-Stähler
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 18, No. 3, 2023)
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Jónsi, Hrafntinna (Obsidian) The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Sara Dagovic
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 18, No. 3, 2023)
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Writing Sillage in Nineteenth-Century France The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Chanelle Dupuis
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 18, No. 3, 2023)
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The sonic spectrums of skateboarding: from polarity to plurality The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Brian Glenney, Max Boutin, Paul O’Connor
The sounds produced by skateboards, or skatesounds, are a common basis of complaint among the urban public and yet a source of inspiration and joy for skateboarding participants. These opposing res...
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“Hearing with the eyes” visual hearing in (a trio) music rehearsals The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Barbara Pentimalli, Giampietro Gobo
Making music together relies, among other things, on the mutual hearing amongst co-performers and on the visual monitoring of each other’s actions and gestures. This is better facilitated when musi...
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Activating the senses: the aesthetics and politics of the transpecies society The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Jenny Huberman
ABSTRACT The Transpecies Society is an association of cyborg artists and activists “that gives voice to nonhuman identities; raises awareness of the challenges transpecies face; advocates for the freedom of self-design and offers the development of new senses and organs.” This article explores how members of The Transpecies Society use sensory modification as a form of artistic expression and political
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Cloud Walkers The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Sin Tung Ng
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2023)
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Disturbance (The Aesthetics of Tinnitus) The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Thomas Nutt
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2024)
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Odor: Immaterial Sculptures The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Anne M. Röhl
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2023)
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Christina Battle, the air we breathe The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Madeline Collins
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2023)
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Highlighting elephant’s perspective through umwelt exploration: textual analysis of the novella River Storm The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Moumita Bala, Smriti Singh
The elephants are the most important animal characters in Nirmal Ghosh’s novella River Storm, and they both metaphorically and literally permeate the entire story. This article explores how viewing...
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Touching imaginaries: otherwise worlds and speculative techno-touch in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Maya Caspari
ABSTRACT Through a discussion of Wanuri Kahiu’s short 2009 film Pumzi, this article illustrates how Afrofuturist film interrogates and extends normative theoretical paradigms for conceptualizing the intersections of technology and touch. Building on work in Black Studies, the article situates technology in the history of modernity, arguing that biopolitical modernity may itself be a kind of techno-touch
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Touching to connect, explore, and explain: how the human brain makes social touch meaningful The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-05-03 India Morrison
ABSTRACT Human touch has an enormous power to engender and mediate meaning in the human mind, from the emotional to the pragmatic, and from the linguistic to the symbolic. Can a functional-neuroanatomical perspective on social touch contribute to a general understanding of the biological workings of such meaning-making? I argue here that it can, and that the ways the brain accomplishes this are manifold
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Car driving as inverted quarantine and the sensory response to collective threats: challenges for public transport The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Matthias Gross
Attempts at changing individual car use behavior towards increased use of public transport have so far largely failed. This paper will argue that the continued rise in individual car use needs to b...
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Infrastructure and deaf futurism The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Sabrina Ward-Kimola
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2024)
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Cold colonialism and sensory infrastructures The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Hsuan L. Hsu
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2023)
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Sharpening our olfactory gaze The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Clara Muller
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2023)
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Challenging ocularcentric fairness assumptions of the video assistant referee (VAR) system in football The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Yağmur Nuhrat
Football’s video assistant referee (VAR) system is based on the assumption that reviewing plays on a screen refines precision and accuracy, resulting in fairer calls. The system thus reinforces ocu...
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Embracing water, healing pine: touch-walking and transcorporeal worldings The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Maria Nätynki, Taina Kinnunen, Marjo Kolehmainen
This article considers touch as an embodied worlding practice in the context of humans intentionally seeking tactile trans-species contact. In particular, it examines three co-researchers’ tactile ...
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Gravel cycling craft and the senses: scenes, sounds, vibrations, fatigue and typifications on off-road tracks The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Richard Cook, John Hockey
Although cycling has been researched at the interactional level, there is scant literature regarding embodiment, and the somatic experiences from rider-bike-ground interactions. Via an ethnographic...
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Social robots and the futures of affective touch The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Mark Paterson
ABSTRACT I focus on the role of touch within human-robot interaction. Because robots are physically embodied, this brings up questions of anthropomorphism and behavioral mimicry in the establishment of trust and rapport, especially between robots and developmentally diverse or elderly human subjects. By examining two recent examples of social robots, SoCoRo and HuggieBot 2.0, I ask: what can historic
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From cookbooks to ASMR: significance of sound and hearing in culinary recipes The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Marzena Keating, Joanna Łapińska
Based on the contrastive analysis of selected recipes represented in various media, such as cookbooks, television culinary shows and ASMR videos, this article seeks to provide an overview of numero...
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The five senses in the medieval law of evidence The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Ziyun Dong
This paper traces the evolution of sensory model in medieval law of evidence. As the result of the revival of public authorities and the law in the twelfth century, evidentiary rules became one of ...
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Robotic technologies, touch and posthuman embodiment in queer dementia care The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Margrit Shildrick
ABSTRACT Developing technologies raise concerns that go beyond the economies of human to human or human-animal relations to open up exploration of our place in a world of both organic and inorganic effects. I explore how practices that characterize the very specific locus of dementia care could be – and are already – queered by the intervention of technological prostheses, and especially zoomorphic
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The mention of flies: chance, environment, depiction The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Patrick Farmer
Acting as a bridge over the river of “academic” and “artistic” contributions to this special edition, this article explores zones of chance (with a particular focus on Surrealist objective chance a...
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What is affective technotouch (and why does it matter)? The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Amelia DeFalco, Luna Dolezal
ABSTRACT This Editors’ Introduction defines the theme of ’affective technotouch’ as referring to multidimensional embodied encounters with technologies which can trigger emotional and affective responses, while also being concerned with social, political, cultural and ethical dimensions of technological touch. With reference to neuroscience and developmental studies, we outline how touch is foundational
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Education of the senses: the art of noticing, self-improvement, or the grooming of paying customers? The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Tomáš Paul
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2023)
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Gridding bodies: a topographical survey of teaching touch in medical school The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Anna Harris
ABSTRACT Recent technological interventions in healthcare, such as robots or artificial intelligence are often described as being made with algorithms and data points, in contrast to human care, which is couched in terms of intimacy and fleshy encounters, exemplified in the sensory act of touch. In this article I problematize such distinctions by looking at how training the sensory skills of diagnosis
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Creation from Creature: Plants and Animals on the Silk Roads The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Siyi Wang
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2023)
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The presence of the absence: sensory aesthetics and Magnetic Resonance Imaging The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Anca-Simona Horvath, Viola Rühse
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2023)
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Aromas of knowledge, networks of scent: tracing the olfactory imagination of a 17th-century Ottoman traveler The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Rao Mohsin Ali Noor
ABSTRACT Standing in as a monumental work of Ottoman first-person prose that is without precedent, the Seyāḥatnāme (“Book of Travels”), at once a travelogue as well as a literary composition, is an ideal source for conducting a sensate history of Ottoman-Islamic society in the 17th century. Using characteristic flair and imagination, its author Evliyā Çelebi relates a number of fantastical anecdotes
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How can scents enhance the impact of guided museum tours? towards an impact approach for olfactory museology The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Caro Verbeek, Inger Leemans, Bernardo Fleming
ABSTRACT Within the field of sensory museology, olfactory approaches are gaining more attention, from curators, heritage communication and education, artists and researchers. However, olfactory museology, conducting and studying experiments with smell in curatorial practices, is suffering from a lack of documentation – both regarding the experiments conducted, and the impact of the approaches. In this
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Interactive skin through a social- sensory speculative lens The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Carey Jewitt, Ned Barker, Jürgen Steimle
ABSTRACT This paper uses a speculative lens to explore the social and sensory trajectories of Interactive Skin, a class of skin-worn epidermal devices that augment the human body in ways that are significant for affective techno-touch. The paper presents and discusses the use of a speculative narrative on Interactive Skin futures produced through an exploratory research-collaboration with a Human–Computer
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Recuperating the bad outcome: reimagining optimal futures beyond Auditory Verbal Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Michele Friedner, Pamela Block
ABSTRACT This article analyzes convergences in the ways that both deafness and autism are framed as crises that require immediate (and often expensive) professional intervention. Parents receive messages that failure to therapeutically intervene will prevent their children from living normative lives. We demonstrate how therapy techniques such as Auditory Verbal Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis
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The flavor of Cuban movement and the deliciousness of embodied skills The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Thomas F. Carter
ABSTRACT This article explores the Cuban sensorium as revealed through children’s baseball practice. The development of physical skills in any sport are painstakingly learned through repetitive practice. The enskillment of such movements are tasted by coaches, athletes and others through a combination of sensory information. In Cuba, the sensing of movement is understood and evaluated through the flavor
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Exploring sonic experiences in church spaces: a psycholinguistic analysis The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Josée Laplace, Catherine Guastavino
ABSTRACT Sound plays a critical role in the sensory experience of churches. Yet, it has received scant attention from the point of view of visitors in a context where churches are deserted. We report on the analysis of verbalizations of sonic experiences in a church in Montréal. Results show that sound acquires “a life of its own,” abstracted from the sound sources, unlike other everyday listening
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Sensory ecologies: the refinement of movement and the senses in sport The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2022-11-06 Thomas F. Carter, Sean Heath, Sarah Jacobs, Jasmijn Rana
ABSTRACT Sport is centrally concerned with the human body. Those concerns focus on how bodies move materially in space and in time. In this article, we develop our concept of “Sensory Ecology” to elucidate how one might come to develop and understand the creation of specialist bodily knowledge found in sport. Sensory ecologies are produced through the refinement of enskilled movement of bodily materials
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What does lockdown smell like? Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic through smell The Senses and Society Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Louisa Allen
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to understandings of COVID society by offering insights into the lived experience of lockdown. It reveals how larger social and economic impacts of the virus unfold in one suburban town in New Zealand. Employing “smellwalks,” it mobilizes smell as an empirical tool to understand lockdown experience. Drawing from the “sensory turn” this method recognizes smell as a way