Carnal Aesthetics

Bettina Papenburg and Marta Zarzycka are both Assistant Professors at the Graduate Gender Programme in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

• ContentsList of Illustrations viiAcknowledgements ixNotes on Contributors x Introduction 1Bettina Papenburg and Marta ZarzyckaPART I ENCOUNTERING (AESTH) ETHICS1 Trauma, Time and Painting: Bracha Ettinger and the Matrixial Aesthetic 21Griselda Pollock2 Showing Sounds: Listening to War Photographs 42Marta Zarzycka3 Another Regard 54Erin ManningPART II AFFECTIVE IMAGERY4 Uneasy Bodies: Affect, Embodies Perception and Contemporary Fashion Photography 73Eugenie Shinkle5 Force of Affects, Weight of Histories in Love is a Treasure 89Ann Koivunen6 Atmospheric Affects 102Jill BennettPART III SENTIENT BODIES7.The Dream Olfactory: On Making Scents of Cinema 121Vivian Sobchak8. Thinking Multisensory Culture 144Laura U. Marks9. Grotesque Sensations; Carnivalising the Sensorium in the Art of Wangechi Mutu 158Bettina PapenburgPART IV STRATEGIES OF DISRUPTION10. Tactile Visions: From Embodies to Encoded Love 175Martine Beugnet11. Art as a Circuit Breaker: Surveillance Screens and Powers of Affect 198Paricia Pisters12. Shattered Images and Desiring Matter 214A Diaologue between Hito Steyerl and Domitilla Olivieri13. Mucosal Monsters 226Patricia MacCormackName Index 238Subject Index 240

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