This intriguing collection posits that the senses are the gateways of knowledge as well as instruments of power. The contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Alain Corbin and others place sensory experience at the forefront of cultural analysis. The essays take the reader into the sensory worlds of the medieval witch and the postmodern mall, a Japanese tea ceremony and a Boston homeless shelter. The volume includes a bibliography for "fifty ways to come to your senses," listing 50 books representing current sensory research in the humanities, social sciences and the arts. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
In Empire of the Senses the senses are considered as cultural systems. Bringing together classic pieces by key thinkers--from Marshall McLuhan and Alain Corbin to Susan Stewart and Oliver Sacks--as well as newly commissioned articles, this path-breaking book provides a comprehensive overview of the "sensual revolution," where all manner of disciplines converge. Its aim is to enhance our understanding of the role of the senses in history and across cultures by overturning the hegemony of vision in contemporary theory and demonstrating that all senses play a role in mediating cultural experience. It asks provocative questions that most of us take for granted. Are there, for example, only five senses, or is this assumption a Western construct? This radical contribution to revisioning cultural studies will be essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the full complexity of how we experience our world.
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General Introduction: Empires of the Senses Part I: The Prescience of
the Senses 'Culture Tunes Our Neurons' 'The Mind's Eye: What the Blind
See'--Oliver Sacks * 'Inside the Five Sense Sensorium'--Marshall McLuhan,
formerly University of Toronto Part II. The Shifting Sensorium Historicizing
Perception 'Remembering the Senses'--Susan Stewart, Princeton University *
'The Witch's Senses: Sensory Ideologies and Transgressive Femininities from
the Renaissance to Modernity'--Constance Classen, Concordia University,
Montreal * 'The Senses Divided: Organs, Objects, and Media in Early Modern
England'--Carla Mazzio, University of Chicago * 'The Death of the Sensuous
Chemist: The 'New' Chemistry and the Transformation of Sensuous
Technology'--Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, Netherlands * 'Charting the
Cultural History of the Senses'-- Alain Corbin, Universites de Paris Part
III. Sensescapes Sensation in Cultural Context 'McLuhan in the Rainforest:
The Sensory Worlds of Oral Cultures'--Constance Classen, Concordia
University, Montreal * 'Consciousness as 'Feeling in the Body': A West
African Theory of Embodiment, Emotion and the Making of Mind'--Kathryn Linn
Geurts, Hamline University, Minnesota * 'Places Sensed, Senses Placed:
Towards a Sensuous Epistemology of Space'--Steven Feld, University of New
Mexico, Albequerque * 'The Tea Ceremony: A Symbolic Analysis'--Dorinne Kondo,
University of Southern California * 'Engaging the Spirits of Modernity:
Temiar Songs of a Changing World'--Marina Roseman, Indiana University * 'Home
Cooking: Filipino Women and Geographies of the Senses in Hong Kong'--Lisa
Law, University of St Andrews Part IV. The Aestheticization of Everyday Life
Aestheticization Takes Command 'A Tonic of Wildness: Sensuousness in Henry
David Thoreau'--Victor Carl Friesen, Independent Scholar * 'Volatile Effects:
Olfactory Dimensions of Art and Architecture'--Jim Drobnick, Parachute
Magazine * 'HYPERAESTHESIA, or, The Sensual Logic of Late Capitalism'--David
Howes, Concordia University, Montreal * 'Under the Jaguar Sun'--Italo Calvino
* 'Michel Serres' Five Senses'--Steven Connor, Birckbeck College * 'Darwin's
Disgust'--William Ian Miller, University of Michigan Law School Part V. The
Derangement of the Senses The Senses Disordered 'Strindberg's 'Deranged
Sensations''--Hans-Göran Ekman, University of Uppsala * 'Movement, Stillness:
On the Sensory World of a Shelter for the 'Homeless Mentally Ill''--Robert
Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College, New York * 'Dystoposthesia: Emplacing
Environmental Sensitivities'--Christopher Fletcher, University of Alberta,
EdmontonGeneral Introduction: Empires of the Senses Part I: The Prescience of
the Senses 'Culture Tunes Our Neurons' 'The Mind's Eye: What the Blind
See'--Oliver Sacks * 'Inside the Five Sense Sensorium'--Marshall McLuhan,
formerly University of Toronto Part II. The Shifting Sensorium Historicizing
Perception 'Remembering the Senses'--Susan Stewart, Princeton University *
'The Witch's Senses: Sensory Ideologies and Transgressive Femininities from
the Renaissance to Modernity'--Constance Classen, Concordia University,
Montreal * 'The Senses Divided: Organs, Objects, and Media in Early Modern
England'--Carla Mazzio, University of Chicago * 'The Death of the Sensuous
Chemist: The 'New' Chemistry and the Transformation of Sensuous
Technology'--Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, Netherlands * 'Charting the
Cultural History of the Senses'-- Alain Corbin, Universites de Paris Part
III. Sensescapes Sensation in Cultural Context 'McLuhan in the Rainforest:
The Sensory Worlds of Oral Cultures'--Constance Classen, Concordia
University, Montreal * 'Consciousness as 'Feeling in the Body': A West
African Theory of Embodiment, Emotion and the Making of Mind'--Kathryn Linn
Geurts, Hamline University, Minnesota * 'Places Sensed, Senses Placed:
Towards a Sensuous Epistemology of Space'--Steven Feld, University of New
Mexico, Albequerque * 'The Tea Ceremony: A Symbolic Analysis'--Dorinne Kondo,
University of Southern California * 'Engaging the Spirits of Modernity:
Temiar Songs of a Changing World'--Marina Roseman, Indiana University * 'Home
Cooking: Filipino Women and Geographies of the Senses in Hong Kong'--Lisa
Law, University of St Andrews Part IV. The Aestheticization of Everyday Life
Aestheticization Takes Command 'A Tonic of Wildness: Sensuousness in Henry
David Thoreau'--Victor Carl Friesen, Independent Scholar * 'Volatile Effects:
Olfactory Dimensions of Art and Architecture'--Jim Drobnick, Parachute
Magazine * 'HYPERAESTHESIA, or, The Sensual Logic of Late Capitalism'--David
Howes, Concordia University, Montreal * 'Under the Jaguar Sun'--Italo Calvino
* 'Michel Serres' Five Senses'--Steven Connor, Birckbeck College * 'Darwin's
Disgust'--William Ian Miller, University of Michigan Law School Part V. The
Derangement of the Senses The Senses Disordered 'Strindberg's 'Deranged
Sensations''--Hans-Göran Ekman, University of Uppsala * 'Movement, Stillness:
On the Sensory World of a Shelter for the 'Homeless Mentally Ill''--Robert
Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College, New York * 'Dystoposthesia: Emplacing
Environmental Sensitivities'--Christopher Fletcher, University of Alberta,
Edmonton
David Howes is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory and a co-author of Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell.
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