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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.
List of contents
Section One: Traversing Acoustic Spaces1. On Acoustic Justice
Brandon LaBelle2. Björk's Posthuman Hypomnemata and the Future of Music Video
Susan George3. Through Afterhours: Spatiality and Post-Fordist Unbecoming
Ayush Biswas4. Singing Rivers: Spatial Discourses and Milieu-Specific Analysis
Steven S. GeorgeSection Two: Mapping Artistic Spaces5. Creolisers, Collaborators, Tastemakers, and the Weavers of Thieux Translation and Exegesis of a Short Story by Ari Gautier
Ananya Jahanara Kabir6. Filling the Silver Dots: Cognitive Militarism, Populist Healing Practices and the Rise of the Neo-Gestalt Guru
Umar Nizaruddin7. Spacial Poems. On planetary communication through multisensory artistic performance
Pawel Michna8. Taste of Choice: Making Sense of Food in the Indian Blogosphere
Sakshi DograSection Three: Reorienting Narrative Spaces9. Articulating Shakespeare Globally
David Schalkwyk10. Mapping Dalit Women's Lifeworld in Bama's Narratives
Nishat Haider11. The poet as a queer flaneur: Envisaging the glocal city in the poetry of Frank O'Hara
Srinjoyee Dutta12. Reflections on Transnational Globalization in Olga Tokarczuk's
FlightsNishtha Pandey13. (En)countering the Oil in Malayalam Petrofiction and the Production of Proletariats
Grace Mariam RajuSection Four: Charting Visual and Virtual Spaces14. Identities and Intensities: Comics as 'Blocs of Sensation'
Ajith Cherian15. Unwittification of the collective subject: an exploration of the phenomenon of unwittification in
Bird Box,
Khudito Pashan and contemporary Covid-19 afflicted society
Soham Adhikari16. Interrogating political and urban cartographies of Delhi in Sarnath Banerjee's
Corridor and Vishwajyoti Ghosh's
Delhi CalmMohit Abrol17. Made in Heaven: Intersectionality and Hyperaesthetics in the making of Delhi and the 'Dilliwala'
Namita Paul18. Unreal City: Expressions of Tokyo in Video Games
Lakshmi Menon19. Representing Asia in Cyberpunk Films: Race, Gender and Techno-Orientalism in Rupert Sanders'
Ghost in the ShellDeeksha YadavIndex
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.
