A Cultural History of the Senses in the Modern Age

David 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).

Introduction: “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)
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Notes on contributors
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