Sensory experiments: psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling
In Sensory Experiments Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of "feeling" in nineteenth-century America. Fretwell demonstrates how psychophysics-a scientific movement origi...
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| Summary: | In Sensory Experiments Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of "feeling" in nineteenth-century America. Fretwell demonstrates how psychophysics-a scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experience-shifted the understandings of feeling from the epistemology of sentiment to the phenomenological terrain of lived experience. Through analyses of medical case studies, spirit photographs, perfumes, music theory, recipes, and the work of canonical figures ranging from Kate Chopin and Pauline Hopkins to James Weldon Johnson and Emily Dickinson, Fretwell outlines how the five senses became important elements in the biopolitical work of constructing human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability. In its entanglement with social difference, psychophysics contributed to the racialization of aesthetics while sketching out possibilities for alternate modes of being, over and against the figure of the bourgeois, liberal individual. Although psychophysics is largely forgotten, Fretwell demonstrates that its importance to shaping social order through scientific notions of sensation is central to contemporary theories of new materialism, posthumanism, aesthetics, and affect theory |
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| spelling | Fretwell, Erica 1982- Verfasser (DE-588)122064689X aut Sensory experiments psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling Erica Fretwell Durham ; London Duke University Press 2020 © 2020 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 324 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier In Sensory Experiments Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of "feeling" in nineteenth-century America. Fretwell demonstrates how psychophysics-a scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experience-shifted the understandings of feeling from the epistemology of sentiment to the phenomenological terrain of lived experience. Through analyses of medical case studies, spirit photographs, perfumes, music theory, recipes, and the work of canonical figures ranging from Kate Chopin and Pauline Hopkins to James Weldon Johnson and Emily Dickinson, Fretwell outlines how the five senses became important elements in the biopolitical work of constructing human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability. In its entanglement with social difference, psychophysics contributed to the racialization of aesthetics while sketching out possibilities for alternate modes of being, over and against the figure of the bourgeois, liberal individual. Although psychophysics is largely forgotten, Fretwell demonstrates that its importance to shaping social order through scientific notions of sensation is central to contemporary theories of new materialism, posthumanism, aesthetics, and affect theory LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General bisacsh Psychophysics Racism United States History 19th century Racism United States Psychological aspects Science Social aspects United States History 19th century Senses and sensation Social aspects Rassismus (DE-588)4076527-1 gnd rswk-swf Gefühl (DE-588)4019702-5 gnd rswk-swf Psychophysik (DE-588)4176251-4 gnd rswk-swf Ästhetik (DE-588)4000626-8 gnd rswk-swf Wahrnehmungspsychologie (DE-588)4079011-3 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Psychophysik (DE-588)4176251-4 s Wahrnehmungspsychologie (DE-588)4079011-3 s Ästhetik (DE-588)4000626-8 s Gefühl (DE-588)4019702-5 s Rassismus (DE-588)4076527-1 s DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover 978-1-4780-0986-3 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback 978-1-4780-1093-7 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012450 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Fretwell, Erica 1982- Sensory experiments psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General bisacsh Psychophysics Racism United States History 19th century Racism United States Psychological aspects Science Social aspects United States History 19th century Senses and sensation Social aspects Rassismus (DE-588)4076527-1 gnd Gefühl (DE-588)4019702-5 gnd Psychophysik (DE-588)4176251-4 gnd Ästhetik (DE-588)4000626-8 gnd Wahrnehmungspsychologie (DE-588)4079011-3 gnd |
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| title | Sensory experiments psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling |
| title_auth | Sensory experiments psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling |
| title_exact_search | Sensory experiments psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling |
| title_full | Sensory experiments psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling Erica Fretwell |
| title_fullStr | Sensory experiments psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling Erica Fretwell |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sensory experiments psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling Erica Fretwell |
| title_short | Sensory experiments |
| title_sort | sensory experiments psychophysics race and the aesthetics of feeling |
| title_sub | psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling |
| topic | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General bisacsh Psychophysics Racism United States History 19th century Racism United States Psychological aspects Science Social aspects United States History 19th century Senses and sensation Social aspects Rassismus (DE-588)4076527-1 gnd Gefühl (DE-588)4019702-5 gnd Psychophysik (DE-588)4176251-4 gnd Ästhetik (DE-588)4000626-8 gnd Wahrnehmungspsychologie (DE-588)4079011-3 gnd |
| topic_facet | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General Psychophysics Racism United States History 19th century Racism United States Psychological aspects Science Social aspects United States History 19th century Senses and sensation Social aspects Rassismus Gefühl Psychophysik Ästhetik Wahrnehmungspsychologie USA |
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