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Sensory reflections : traces of experience in medieval artifacts
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ISBN: 9783110709025 3110709023 9783110563443 9783110562866 Year: 2020 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter,


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The smell of risk : environmental disparities and olfactory aesthetics
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ISBN: 1479805378 9781479807215 9781479810093 1479808148 1479807214 1479810096 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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Abstract

Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral - and personal - form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatility, and materiality. But it is these very qualities that make olfaction a vital tool for sensing and staging environmental risk and inequality. Unlike the other senses, smell extends across space and reaches into our bodies. Hsu traces how writers, artists, and activists have deployed these embodied, biochemical qualities of smell in their efforts to critique and reshape modernity's olfactory disparities.

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