Sensory studies arises at the conjuncture (and within) the fields of anthropology • sociology • history • archeology • geography • communications • religion • philosophy • literature • art history • museology • film • mixed media • performance • phenomenology • disability • aesthetics • architecture • urbanism • design

Sensory Studies can also be divided along sensory lines into, for example, visual culture, auditory culture (or sound studies), smell culture, taste culture and the culture of touch, not to mention the sixth sense (however it might be defined)

Uncommon Senses V Virtual Book Exhibition

 

The first presents a list of book titles sorted alphabetically by last name culled from the bios that the registered participants in the Uncommon Senses IV conference (3-6 May 2023) sent us together with their recent publication submissions. In many cases, the publishers generously agreed to offer discounts for use by conference participants. You can find these discount codes attached to their associated listings.

Many of these listings can also be found in the Books of Note page of the Sensory Studies website. The Books of Note page is regularly updated with news of the latest publications in the ever expanding field of sensory studies.

 

 

 


The Museum of the Senses: Experiencing Art and Collection

By Constance Classen

Bloomsbury

 

 


The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch

By Constance Classen

University of Illinois Press

 

 


Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling

By Erica Fretwell

Duke University Press

 

 


What’s that Smell?: A Philosophy of the Olfactory

By Simon Hajdini

MIT Press

 

 


The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics

By Hsuan L. Hsu

NYU Press

 

 


Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing

By David Parisi

University of Minnesota Press

 

 


How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement Measurement, Sensation

By Mark Paterson

University of Minnesota Press

 

 


The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage

By Christy Spackman

University of California Press

 

 


On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking Through Synesthesia

By Liesl Yamaguchi

Fordham University Press