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Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader (Sensory Formations Series) Book

Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader (Sensory Formations Series)
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  • Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader (Sensory Formations Series)
  • Written by author David Howes
  • Published by Berg Publishers, February 2005
  • 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. T
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Introduction : empires of the senses1
1The mind's eye : what the blind see25
2Inside the five sense sensorium43
3Remembering the senses59
4The witch's senses : sensory ideologies and transgressive femininities from the Renaissance to modernity70
5The senses divided : organs, objects, and media in early modern England85
6The death of the sensuous chemist : the 'new' chemistry and the transformation of sensuous technology106
7Charting the cultural history of the senses128
8McLuhan in the rainforest : the sensory worlds of oral cultures147
9Consciousness as 'feeling in the body' : a West African theory of embodiment, emotion and the making of mind164
10Places sensed, senses placed : toward a sensuous epistemology of environments179
11The tea ceremony : a symbolic analysis192
12Engaging the spirits of modernity : Temiar songs of a changing world212
13Home cooking : Filipino women and geographies of the senses in Hong Kong224
14A tonic of wildness : sensuousness in Henry David Thoreau251
15Volatile effects : olfactory dimensions of art and architecture265
16Hyperesthesia, or, the sensual logic of late capitalism281
17Under the jaguar sun304
18Michel Serres' five senses318
19Darwin's disgust335
20Strindberg's 'deranged sensations'361
21Movement, stillness : on the sensory world of a shelter for the 'homeless mentally ill'369
22Dystoposthesia : emplacing environmental sensitivities380


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