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Disturbance, Translation, Enculturation: Necessary Research in New Media, Technology, and the Senses
Author(s) -
Salter Chris
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/var.12156
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , oppression , sociology , enculturation , indigenous , set (abstract data type) , aesthetics , politics , political science , pedagogy , computer science , art , ecology , programming language , law , biology , embedded system
This article examines a research program centered at the nexus of five seemingly unrelated fields: art practice with new technologies, anthropology, cultural studies of technology, the development of new technologies that seek to make new forms of sensation, and Indigenous new media studies. First, I articulate a broader area of interdisciplinary research called sensory studies . Subsequently, and switching to the pronoun “we,” I briefly describe the aims of Sensory Entanglements : a collaborative research program that asks how different bodies and cultures can transform/resist dominant paradigms of power and oppression through the senses. Finally, I conclude with a broader set of questions around the increased role the senses are playing in the organization of new modes of political‐socio‐technical reason.