Books of Note 2018
The Aesthetics of Atmopsheres
By Gernot Böhme and Jean-Paul Thibaud
Routledge
Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies: Culture, Technology, and Things to Come
by Erik Steinskog
Palgrave
Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing
By David Parisi
University of Minnesota Press
Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions
by Catherine Keyser
Oxford University Press
Atmospheres and the Experiential World: Theory and Methods
By Shanti Sumartojo and Sarah Pink
Routledge
Being and Hearing: Making Intelligible Worlds in Deaf Kathmandu
by Peter Graif
Hau Books
Beyond Sight: Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200-1750
Edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal
University of Toronto Press
Darkness: A Cultural History
by Nina Edwards
The University of Chicago Press
Devouring Japan: Global Perspectives on Japanese Culinary Identity
Edited by Nancy K. Stalker
Oxford University Press
Digital Sound Studies
edited by Mary Caron Lingold, Darren Mueller, Whitney Trettien
Duke University Press
Discourses of Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Seeing, Thinking, Writing
by Jonathan Potter
Palgrave
Electric Light: An Architectural History
by Sandy Isenstadt
MIT Press
Embodied Family Choreography: Practices of Control, Care, and Mundane Creativity
by Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Asta Cekaite
Routledge
Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses, Baroque to Neo-Baroque
Edited by Lisa Beaven and Angela Ndalianis
Western Michigan University
Empire of the Senses: Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America
Edited by Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite
Brill
The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone
by Antoine Bousquet
University of Minnesota Press
Figures of Touch Sense, Technics, Body
Edited by Mika Elo & Miika Luoto
Unigrafia
The Forgotten Sense: Meditations on Touch
By Pablo Maurette
The University of Chicago Press
Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design
Edited by Francesco Aletta and Jieling Xiao
IGI Global
Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature
by Angela Leighton
Harvard University Press
Law in the Time of Oxymora: A Synaesthesia of Language, Logic and Law
by Rostam J. Neuwirth
Routledge
Methods of Aesthetic Enquiry: Interdisciplinary Encounters
A Special issue of The Senses and Society
Edited by Dee Reynolds and Boris Wiseman
Taylor & Francis
The Painter’s Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard
by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Princeton: Princeton University Press
Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory
Edited by Fiona Macpherson and Fabian Dorsch
Oxford University Press
A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames
by Brendan Keogh
MIT Press
Poïétique des flots. Une anthropologie sensible de la mer dans le banc d’Arguin (Mauritanie)
By Hélène Artaud
Petra
The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening
by Salomé Voegelin
Bloomsbury
Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
by Rachel Plotnick
MIT Press
Reading by Design: The Visual Interface of the English Renaissance Book
by Pauline Reid
University of Toronto Press
Reformation of the Senses: The Paradox of Religious Belief and Practice in Germany
by Jacob B. Baum
University of Illinois Press
Rembrandt’s Roughness
by Nicola Suthor
Princeton University Press
The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies
Edited by Michael Bull
Routledge
Sculptural Seeing: Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy
by Christopher R. Lakey
Yale University Press
SEE
Edited by Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
University of Westminster Press
Senses, Affects and Archaeology: Changing the Heart, the Mind and the Pants
by José Roberto Pellini
Cambridge Scholars
Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant in Aleppo
by Tala Jarjour
Oxford University Press
Senses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources (4 volumes)
by David Howes
Routledge
The Senses in Antiquity Series
Edited by Mark Bradley & Shane Butler
Routledge
Senses in Cities: Experiences of Urban Settings
Edited by Kelvin E.Y. Low and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Routledge
The Senses of Democracy: Perception, Politics, and Culture in Latin America
by Francine R. Masiello
University of Texas Press
Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Edited by Robin Macdonald, Emilie K.M. Murphy, and Elizabeth L. Swann
Routledge
Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance
by Amber Jamilla Musser
NYU Press
Sensual Religion: Religion and the Five Senses
Edited by Graham Harvey and Jessica Hughes
Equinox Publishing
Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium
by Roland Betancourt
Cambridge University Press
The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde: Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia
By Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith
Bloomsbury
Skin Matters: Thinking Through the Body’s Surfaces
Edited by Marc Lafrance
Theory Culture & Society Journal Special Issue
Sonic Skills: Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present)
by Karin Bijsterveld
Palgrave
Sound and the Aesthetics of Play: A Musical Ontology of Constructed Emotions
by Justin Christensen
Palgrave
Sound and the Ancient Senses
Edited by Shane Butler and Sarah Nooter
Routledge
Sounding Composition: Multimodal Pedagogies for Embodied Listening
By Steph Ceraso
University of Pittsburgh Press
Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World
by Patrick Eisenlohr
University of California Press
TASTE
Edited by Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
University of Westminster Press
Taste and the Ancient Senses
Edited by Kelli C. Rudolph
Routledge
Touch and the Ancient Senses
Edited by Alex Purves
Routledge
Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities
by David Bissell
MIT Press
Virginia Woolf: Music, Sound, Language
by Elicia Clements
University of Toronto Press