[csaa-forum] Transformations Extended Deadline Hyperaesthetic Culture

[Warwick Mules]

Transformations is calling for submissions for Issue 22: Hyperaesthetic
Culture.

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 7 DECEMBER 2011

We live in a competitive sensory environment. The marketing of consumer
goods continually appeals to taste, touch, vision, hearing, and smell,
compelling other practices to engage our senses in what David Howes
describes as a 'hyperaesthetic culture'. This environment is saturated with
alluring and intense sense experience that proliferates as technologies such
as ultrasonography, satellites and computer applications provide access to
things previously beyond human perception. Bodies are cultivated to be
aesthetically appealing and optimally available to the senses for
commercial, medical and security purposes.

This special issue of Transformations will examine sensory regimes and the
way in which people respond to them. Recent cultural research into the
senses shows that the relationships and hierarchies between them are not
static. Varying sensoriums are involved in different understandings of the
self and its relationship to the world. This is apparent in cultural studies
projects that implicitly and explicitly integrate questions of sensory
experience into their investigations.

We invite submissions in the areas of philosophy, critical, cultural and
media studies, and creative arts research. Possible topics include:

­new technologies of the senses, such as haptic technologies
­the effects of sensory regimes on bodies and minds
­sensory appeal and the persistence of technologically 'outmoded' goods,
such as vinyl records
­relationships between hyperaestheticism and thought
­sensory adaptation and substitution, such as human echolocation
­ways of making bodies and objects available to the senses, such as body
scans
­senses other than the traditional five senses, such as proprioception
­new media arts projects incorporating biometric feedback

New deadline for abstracts (500 words): due 7 December 2011 with a view to
submit by 7 March 2012.
Abstracts to be forwarded to: Erika Kerruish erika.kerruish at scu.edu.au
For submission guidelines go to:
http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/

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