{"title":"Creation from Creature: Plants and Animals on the Silk Roads","authors":"Siyi Wang","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2161750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2161750","url":null,"abstract":"Creation from Creature: Plants and Animals on the Silk Roads takes the flora and fauna of the ancient trading routes as its entry point, combining excavated artifacts, natural specimens, and written records to explore this multidimensional environment of cultural exchanges. As the didactic text elaborates, the show embodies the theme that “the Silk Roads change lives.” 1 The title of the exhibition is the first indication of its innovative perspective, removing the narrative of Zhang Qian’s mission to the Western Regions that is typically mentioned before any discussion of the Silk Roads. The new narrative starts instead from those animals and plants. Linked with this distinctive perspective is the central role of smells throughout the exhibition, offering a visceral connection to the unique historical experience and cultural exchange of the Silk Road. Just as Rudyard Kipling pointed out, “Smells are surer than sights and sounds to make your heart-strings crack” (Ackerman 1991, 11). Smells can not only induce affections, but also become affections. So how exactly does this exhibition tell the stories of the Silk Roads through smells?","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"69 1","pages":"75 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80764819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education of the senses: the art of noticing, self-improvement, or the grooming of paying customers?","authors":"Tomáš Paul","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2023.2173486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2023.2173486","url":null,"abstract":"University Press. McLuhan, Eric, and Frank Zingrone. 1996. The Essential McLuhan. New York: Basic Books. Winter, Jay. 2016. “From Sympathy to Empathy: Trajectories of Rights in the Twentieth Century.” In Empathy and Its Limits, edited by Aleida Assmann and Ines Detmers, 100–114. Houndmills: Palgrave. Young, Allan. 2012. “Empathic Cruelty and the Origins of the Social Brain.” In Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience, edited by Suparna Choudhury and Jan Slaby, 159–176. Oxford: Blackwell.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"18 1","pages":"71 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85588500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The presence of the absence: sensory aesthetics and Magnetic Resonance Imaging","authors":"Anca-Simona Horvath, Viola Rühse","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2160152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2160152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"177 1","pages":"66 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79874255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is affective technotouch (and why does it matter)?","authors":"Amelia DeFalco, Luna Dolezal","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2023.2167420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2023.2167420","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 in human experience. We then discuss contemporary technologies, such as haptic gadgets and care/companion robots, which illustrate the complexities of affective technotouch. Finally, we offer critical outlines of the six contributing articles to this Special Issue on Affective Technotouch.</p>","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"18 2","pages":"85-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10273373/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10196167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensing the societal development and cultural transformation in China","authors":"Siyi Wang","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2161748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2161748","url":null,"abstract":"topics. Such detailed and critical cross-disciplinary case studies as Giving Bodies Back to Data in the field of art and science are rare so far, and books like this one provide a more critical and precise account of new imaging technologies than overview studies on image and science. Ultimately, the biggest contribution of Casini’s book is the compelling case it makes about the importance of history when dealing with technology. Both those involved in developing new technologies and those who use them would benefit from understanding their situated histories where decisions in their development entangle politics and economics with science, aesthetics, creativity and disciplinary tensions across space and time.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"24 1","pages":"68 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81050106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aromas of knowledge, networks of scent: tracing the olfactory imagination of a 17th-century Ottoman traveler","authors":"R. M. A. Noor","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2157970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2157970","url":null,"abstract":"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 where scent plays a key narrative purpose, once in the context of conversing with the sacred dead in a dream, and on three occasions during visits to the caves of various Islamicate religious figures from the past. This paper will analyze these anecdotes to determine the narrative functions of scent in the text and in doing so tease out how olfaction was implicated in the Ottoman religious and social imaginary.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"1 1","pages":"52 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84914266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interactive skin through a social- sensory speculative lens","authors":"C. Jewitt, Ned Barker, Jürgen Steimle","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2145840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2145840","url":null,"abstract":"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 Interaction (HCI) lab, combining data from speculative methods (cultural probe returns and a future-orientated workshop) with an ethnographic sensitivity to writing. The speculative narrative is in the form of a found archive of fictional fragments that are research provocations in their own right. We discuss their potentials, including the ability to foster interdisciplinary dialogue between social and HCI researchers and to agitate the socio-technological space of interactive skin futures, as well as their limitations. The paper concludes that a socially orientated speculative approach can provide useful insights on the interconnection between the senses, society, and technology in the context of emergent affective techno-touch technologies.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"38 1","pages":"153 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74091917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recuperating the bad outcome: reimagining optimal futures beyond Auditory Verbal Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis","authors":"Michele Friedner, Pamela Block","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2138090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2138090","url":null,"abstract":"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 have proliferated to address these crises. We explore the development of professional organizations and training programs devoted to AVT and ABA and we consider how AVT and ABA professionals define “optimal outcomes” that are supposedly achieved when diagnosis is removed or declassified. In contrast to professional views, we argue for alternative perceptions of these therapeutic processes and their ostensible outcomes based on accounts by d/Deaf and Autistic adults. In addition, we argue that the (neutral) language of outcomes obscures the active work required and backgrounds the different kinds of labor and ideologies at play. While AVT and ABA experts argue that it is increasingly possible to achieve optimal outcomes, we question the sensory and relational costs of these outcomes and the way that they prevent other ways of being, sensing, and communicating from taking place.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"6 1","pages":"34 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84738702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What does lockdown smell like? Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic through smell","authors":"L. Allen","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2138089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2138089","url":null,"abstract":"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 of knowing social existence and gleaning non-discursive and embodied insights into the global pandemic. This paper endeavors to develop sensory methodology within urban sociology by revealing how smell furthers understandings of place and modes of being during lockdown. It argues changes in suburban smells signal disruption to daily life as a result of the government’s social and economic pandemic-response measures. For instance, the empty cold smell of the mall usually warm and bustling with activity, conveys the isolation and loss of social connectedness produced by lockdown restrictions. Similarly, the dry smell of concrete dust created by the closure and demolition of a high-street bank reflects the slowing of the national economy. Attention to smell enables insight into new modes of being for residents that involve heightened anxiety around viral contagion and a slower, quieter, environmentally cleaner way of life.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"4 1","pages":"19 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83798127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sense of sensory terms and use of the senses in central Flores (Indonesia)","authors":"G. Forth","doi":"10.1080/17458927.2022.2122280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2122280","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Languages that divide the five conventional senses into two named categories, one including vision and the other all non-visual senses, occur sporadically around the world. Focusing on Ngadha-Lio, a group of Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken on Flores Island (eastern Indonesia), the present discussion reaches several conclusions. First, Ngadha-Lio speakers have special terms and other verbal means of distinguishing the several non-visual senses. This contradicts the idea that languages with two main sensory categories recognize just two senses, as does evidence for hearing being the prototype of the non-visual senses. Drawing on animal naming and metaphor in one Ngadha-Lio language, Nage, it is further shown how speakers place the greatest value on vision in distinguishing different kinds of animals and connecting these with humans. This applies even though in ritual and myth Nage make greater use of smell, touch, and taste than Westerners typically do. Vision also unites animals and humans while distinguishing both from invisible spiritual beings, detectible only through non-visual senses, thus revealing the role different senses play in delineating major ontological categories. Finally, attention is given to the way Ngadha-Lio, like other Malayo-Polynesian languages, verbally identify physical and emotional feeling with the non-visual senses, and particularly touch.","PeriodicalId":75188,"journal":{"name":"The senses and society","volume":"48 1","pages":"1 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76866263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}