This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our
most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal …

Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. The Senses of
Touch examines the role of touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied …

Touch is not just a private act. It is a fundamental medium for the expression, experience and
contestation of social values and hierarchies. The culture of touch involves all of culture. The …

In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely
physical and sensuous engagement with works of media art that enriches our understanding …

Touch is a powerful vehicle in the interactions between human beings, with conspicuous
potential for aggression, sex and physical coercion. In the “bubble” of privacy that people …

" Senses of Touch" anatomizes the uniquely human hand as a rhetorical figure for dignity
and deformity in early modern culture. It concerns a valuational shift from the contemplative …

This book contends that the haptic sense-combining touch, kinaesthesis and proprioception-
was first fully conceptualised and explored in the modernist period, in response to radical …

I grew up in a country—Ireland—where people only touched when they were either drunk
(south of the border) or trying to kill each other (north of the border). So the joke went …

In this new book, a preeminent literary thinker muses over the central question of how we
can feel at home in the world, given that the world is independent of and indifferent to our …

An empirically informed philosophical account of human touch as a single, unified sensory
modality that plays a central role in perception. It is through touch that we are able to interact …