Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral

Max Ryynänen is Senior Lecturer of Theory of Visual Culture at Aalto University. Heidi S. Kosonen is Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä Susanne C. Ylönen is Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä.

Introduction

1. From Visceral to the Aesthetic: Tracing Disgust in Contemporary Culture

Max Ryynänen, Heidi S. Kosonen, and Susanne C. Ylönen

SECTION I: Aesthetic Approaches to Disgust

2. Overcoming Disgust: Why, When, and Whether

Carolyn Korsmeyer

3. The Affective Nature of Horror

Filippo Contesi

4. Illustrating Disgust as an Aesthetic Sentiment: Bharata’s Nāṭyaśāstra and Abhinavagupta’s Abhinavabhāratī

S. Bhuvaneshwari

SECTION II: Disgust and Othering

5. "Childish, Self-Centered, and Cruel": Classed Disgust, Maternal Complaint, and Mediated Morality in an Anonymous Online Discussion Board

Armi Mustosmäki and Tiina Sihto

6. Performing Disgust: Affective Intersections of Misogyny, Racism, and Homophobia in Radical-Right Online Discussion

Tuija Saresma and Urho Tulonen

7. The Yuck Factor: Reiterating Insect-Eating (and Otherness) Through Disgust

Heidi S. Kosonen

SECTION III: Foodways and Disgust

8. Disgust by Association: Date Labelling, Standardization, and Freshness

Tanja Plasil

9. "We Did Not Shrink From Eating Carrion": Food Disgust And Early Soviet Famines

Rebecca Manley and Iryna Skubii

10. Cannibals and Kin: Escaping the Disgusting in Newfoundland Fairy Tales

Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye

SECTION IV: Engaging with Disgust in Music and Visual Culture

11. "The Kind of Music that Makes My Skin Crawl": Disgust Associated with Musical Experiences

Henna-Riikka Peltola

12. Music to Vomit to: The Dubstep Drop, the Bass Face, and the Sound of the Social Web

Edward K. Spencer

13. Generative Disgust, Aesthetic Engagement, and Community

Erin Bradfield

SECTION V: Disgust, Laughter, and Pleasure

14. Producing Disgust: Profanation, the Carnivalesque, and Queering as Keys for Understanding the Unsettling Pop Cultural Performance of Die Antwoord

Susanne C. Ylönen

15. Mortal Bodies, Disgust, and Affective Incongruity in Stand-Up Comedy

Outi Hakola

16. A Cultural Approach to Sex-Related Disgust: Rethinking Shunga and Other "Perversions" in the 21st Century

Hiroshi Yoshioka