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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mark PatersonPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9781517910006ISBN 10: 1517910005 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 26 October 2021 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews"""Opening a new chapter in the archaeology of knowledge and the body, How We Became Sensorimotor charts how the inchoate mass of sensations within the bodily interior became the focus of increasingly intensive scientific inquiry from the mid-1800s onwards. To read this deeply touching book is to come to know one’s innermost self from a rigorously empirical and objective yet intimately familiar angle.""—David Howes, author of The Sensory Studies Manifesto ""Through rigorous archival research and fieldwork, Mark Paterson meticulously documents the historical practices that made the ‘sensorimotor’ body a thinkable concept. Crisscrossing neurology, experimental physiology, phenomenology, and chronophotography, How We Become Sensorimotor tells the fascinating story of the academic disciplines and artistic worlds that lodged internal sensations at the core of what it means to be a body.""—Erica Fretwell, author of Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling" Opening a new chapter in the archaeology of knowledge and the body, How We Became Sensorimotor charts how the inchoate mass of sensations within the bodily interior became the focus of increasingly intensive scientific inquiry from the mid-1800s onwards. To read this deeply touching book is to come to know one's innermost self from a rigorously empirical and objective yet intimately familiar angle. -David Howes, author of The Sensory Studies Manifesto Through rigorous archival research and fieldwork, Mark Paterson meticulously documents the historical practices that made the 'sensorimotor' body a thinkable concept. Crisscrossing neurology, experimental physiology, phenomenology, and chronophotography, How We Become Sensorimotor tells the fascinating story of the academic disciplines and artistic worlds that lodged internal sensations at the core of what it means to be a body. -Erica Fretwell, author of Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling Author InformationMark Paterson is associate professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects, and Technologies and Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision, and Touch after Descartes, as well as coeditor of Touching Place, Placing Touch. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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