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This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic, creative, and artistic spaces. It studies how local cultures of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are impacted by global discourses and media, such as television, popular music, digital media, and literature. The authors look at sense-making practices and spatial discourses through an interconnected discussion on thought and experience that seeks to present a multidimensional cartography of the global, the local, and the glocal, to closely analyze the phenomenon of globalization. The volume is an investigation of the possibilities of alternate, sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified, ethical, biopolitical worldview that challenges the disparity of its fragments while speculating on their synesthetic conditionality.
A unique contribution, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, media studies, cultural studies, literary cultures, post-colonial studies, globalization studies, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, and social anthropology.
List of contents
Section One: Traversing Acoustic Spaces
1. On Acoustic Justice
Brandon LaBelle
2. Björk's Posthuman Hypomnemata and the Future of Music Video
Susan George
3. Through Afterhours: Spatiality and Post-Fordist Unbecoming
Ayush Biswas
4. Singing Rivers: Spatial Discourses and Milieu-Specific Analysis
Steven S. George
Section Two: Mapping Artistic Spaces
5. Creolisers, Collaborators, Tastemakers, and the Weavers of Thieux Translation and Exegesis of a Short Story by Ari Gautier
Ananya Jahanara Kabir
6. Filling the Silver Dots: Cognitive Militarism, Populist Healing Practices and the Rise of the Neo-Gestalt Guru
Umar Nizaruddin
7. Spacial Poems. On planetary communication through multisensory artistic performance
Pawel Michna
8. Taste of Choice: Making Sense of Food in the Indian Blogosphere
Sakshi Dogra
Section Three: Reorienting Narrative Spaces
9. Articulating Shakespeare Globally
David Schalkwyk
10. Mapping Dalit Women's Lifeworld in Bama's Narratives
Nishat Haider
11. The poet as a queer flaneur: Envisaging the glocal city in the poetry of Frank O'Hara
Srinjoyee Dutta
12. Reflections on Transnational Globalization in Olga Tokarczuk's Flights
Nishtha Pandey
13. (En)countering the Oil in Malayalam Petrofiction and the Production of Proletariats
Grace Mariam Raju
Section Four: Charting Visual and Virtual Spaces
14. Identities and Intensities: Comics as 'Blocs of Sensation'
Ajith Cherian
15. Unwittification of the collective subject: an exploration of the phenomenon of unwittification in Bird Box, Khudito Pashan and contemporary Covid-19 afflicted society
Soham Adhikari
16. Interrogating political and urban cartographies of Delhi in Sarnath Banerjee's Corridor and Vishwajyoti Ghosh's Delhi Calm
Mohit Abrol
17. Made in Heaven: Intersectionality and Hyperaesthetics in the making of Delhi and the 'Dilliwala'
Namita Paul
18. Unreal City: Expressions of Tokyo in Video Games
Lakshmi Menon
19. Representing Asia in Cyberpunk Films: Race, Gender and Techno-Orientalism in Rupert Sanders' Ghost in the Shell
Deeksha Yadav
Index
About the author
Simi Malhotra, Professor, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
Zahra Rizvi, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
Shraddha A. Singh, Associate Professor, Department of English, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Summary
This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic, creative, and artistic spaces. It studies how local cultures of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are impacted by global discourses and media.
Report
"The essays in this volume embody a variety of phenomenological approaches in exploring different sensory environments and social spaces while being sensitive to questions of cultural difference. A unique and significant contribution to the literature on sense-making."
Dipesh Chakrabarty
"This timely collection of essays marks a deepening of the global dialogue on the way in which sensory regimes mediate experiential specifics and shape the ways through which forms of the body and the body of forms co-produce one another. The range of examples in this collection is an eloquent reminder of the endless variety of human phenomenological archives."
Arjun Appadurai
