Schedule and Course Readings

15 Jan The Shifting Sensorium (foundational texts)

-Ong, Walter J. ‘The Shifting Sensorium’ in David Howe, ed. The Varieties of sensory experience : a sourcebook in the anthropology of the senses (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1991, 25-30)

-Stewart, Susan, ‘Remembering the Senses,’ in David Howes, Empire of the Senses Oxford:Berg 2005 59-69

-Michael Polanyi, ‘Tacit Knowing,’ in his The Tacit Dimension Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1996 3-25

- Karl Marx, ‘Private Property and Communism,' The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 D J Struick, ed. New York: International Publishers, 1972 98-114

22 Jan How Many Senses and How do they differ I (external and verifiable)

-Classen, Constance, Worlds of Sense London: Routledge, 1993, Chapter 4.

-Evelyn Fox Keller and Christinge Grontkowski, ‘The Mind’s Eye,’ in Harding and Hintikka, Discovering Reality Dordrecht: Reidel, 1983 207-24

- Rodaway, Paul Sensuous geographies : body, sense, and place, Ch.5 Routledge, 1994 61-81

- Schafer, R. Murray. ‘Acoustic Space,’ in David Seamon and Robert Mugerauer, Dwelling Place and Environment Dordrecht: Kluwer 1985 87-98

29 Jan How Many Senses and How do they differ II (internal)

-Scarry, Elaine The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World New York: Oxford, 1985 3-19

- Isabel V. Hull,“The Body as Historical Experience: Review of Recent Works by Barbara Duden,” Central European History 28 (1995), 73-79

- Duden, Barbara ‘Toward a History of the Body,’ in The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-century Germany (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991) 1-49

- Benjamin, Walter, ‘On the Mimetic Faculty,’ in Benjamin, Reflections NY: Harcourt Brace 1978 334-6

- Porteous, J Douglas ‘Smellscape,’ Landscapes of the Mind Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1990 21-45

5 Feb Corporeal Embodiment and Being as Doing in Place

-Varela, Francisco, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch, The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience Cambridge Mass,: MIT Press 1999 Chapter 7,Chapter 8,Chapter 9 Note that the full text of this book is available from online resources at the Weldon Library

-Maturana, Humberto From Being to Doing Heidelberg: Carl Auer 2004 26-37, 140-149 Or his Tree of Knowledge or Autopoiesis and cognition (these 2 are in Weldon)

-Thompson, Evan ‘The Mindful Body: Embodiment and Cognitive Science,’ in Michael O’Donovan-Anderson, ed. The Incorporated Self: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Embodiment (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996) 127-144.

-Johnson, Mark L ‘Embodied Reason,’ in Gail Weiss and Honi Fern Haber, Perspectives on Embodiment NY: Routledge, 1999 81-102

-Harper, Douglas Working Knowledge:skill and community in a small shop Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987 17-34

-Edward S. Casey, ‘How to Get from Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time,’ in Steven Feld and Keith Basso, eds. Senses of Place Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press, 1996 13-52

12 Feb Technologies as Sensuous Mediators

- Reiser, Stanley J. “Technology and the Use of the Senses in Twentieth-century Medicine,” in W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Medicine and the Five Senses Cambridge University Press, 1993, 262-73

-Bull, Michael, ‘The world according to sound: investigating the world of walkman users’ New Media and Society 3, 2 2001 179-197

- Thrift, Nigel ‘Driving in the City,’ Theory, Culture and Society, 21, 41-59

-de Certeau, Michel, ‘Walking in the City,’ The Practice of Everyday Life Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986 91-110

Social Gathering and workshop on research paper topics, time and place TBA

19 Feb Sensuous Information in and beyond language

-Cronon, William ‘A Place for Stories: Nature, History and Narrative,’ Journal of American History 78 (March 1992), 1347-76

-Hayles, N. Katherine ‘Simulated Nature and Natural Simulations: Rethinking the Relation between the Beholder and the World, ’ in William Cronon, ed. Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature (New York: Norton, 1995) 409-25

-Hayles, N. Katherine, ‘Searching for Common Ground,’ in Michael E. Soulé and Gary Lease, eds. Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1995), 46-63.

-Adelson, Leslie A ‘Of Bodies, secrets and the making of histories,’ in Making Bodies, making history Nebraska, 1993 1-36

26 Feb Conference week

4 Mar Bridging the Gap between Body and Technology: New Media, New Practices?

-McCullough, Malcolm Abstracting Craft: the practiced digital hand Cambridge MA: MIT 1998,‘Hands’ and ‘Medium’, 1-30, 193-220

-Hayles, N Katherine, and M. Hansen ‘Foreword: Clearing the Ground,’ and 'Introduction: Resistance to Technology" in Mark Hansen, Embodying Technesis: technology beyond writing Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000 i-ix, 1-22,

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