Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral

Max Ryynänen is Senior Lecturer of Theory of Visual Culture at Aalto University.Heidi S. Kosonen is Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of JyväskyläSusanne C. Ylönen is Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä.

• Introduction1. From Visceral to the Aesthetic: Tracing Disgust in Contemporary Culture Max Ryynänen, Heidi S. Kosonen, and Susanne C. YlönenSECTION I: Aesthetic Approaches to Disgust 2. Overcoming Disgust: Why, When, and WhetherCarolyn Korsmeyer3. The Affective Nature of HorrorFilippo Contesi4. Illustrating Disgust as an Aesthetic Sentiment: Bharata’s Nāṭyaśāstra and Abhinavagupta’s AbhinavabhāratīS. BhuvaneshwariSECTION II: Disgust and Othering5. "Childish, Self-Centered, and Cruel": Classed Disgust, Maternal Complaint, and Mediated Morality in an Anonymous Online Discussion Board Armi Mustosmäki and Tiina Sihto6. Performing Disgust: Affective Intersections of Misogyny, Racism, and Homophobia in Radical-Right Online DiscussionTuija Saresma and Urho Tulonen7. The Yuck Factor: Reiterating Insect-Eating (and Otherness) Through DisgustHeidi S. KosonenSECTION III: Foodways and Disgust8. Disgust by Association: Date Labelling, Standardization, and Freshness Tanja Plasil9. "We Did Not Shrink From Eating Carrion": Food Disgust And Early Soviet FaminesRebecca Manley and Iryna Skubii 10. Cannibals and Kin: Escaping the Disgusting in Newfoundland Fairy TalesPauline Greenhill and Diane TyeSECTION IV: Engaging with Disgust in Music and Visual Culture 11. "The Kind of Music that Makes My Skin Crawl": Disgust Associated with Musical ExperiencesHenna-Riikka Peltola12. Music to Vomit to: The Dubstep Drop, the Bass Face, and the Sound of the Social WebEdward K. Spencer13. Generative Disgust, Aesthetic Engagement, and CommunityErin BradfieldSECTION V: Disgust, Laughter, and Pleasure14. Producing Disgust: Profanation, the Carnivalesque, and Queering as Keys for Understanding the Unsettling Pop Cultural Performance of Die AntwoordSusanne C. Ylönen15. Mortal Bodies, Disgust, and Affective Incongruity in Stand-Up ComedyOuti Hakola16. A Cultural Approach to Sex-Related Disgust: Rethinking Shunga and Other "Perversions" in the 21st CenturyHiroshi Yoshioka