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- Typically, smell can feel like the last sensory frontier. Still a little visceral, still much less checked out– and manipulated– than its various other, much more interfaced as well as corporatised counterparts. When we talk about aroma, also, we often tend to resort to the all-natural as a way to wipe out the all-natural– ocean breeze as well as flower arrangements to mask sweating as well as food preparation smells. Yet after that there’s indolic smells, or those fetid-sweet, narcotic substances located primarily in white flowers like jasmine, nargis, tuberose and honeysuckle. Sexy as they might be, there’s something in them that’s a bit putrescine, cadaverine. The smell of something rotten in the social factory. And after that there’s Proust. To paraphrase contributor Francisco Salas Pérez, we’re tired of madeleines, as well as of Western civilisation’s reductive straightjacket of scent as well as memory. What else can scent do? Exactly how do we hack into audiovisual hegemony? What various other brand-new olfactory disciplines might emerge?
- In this volume, scent suffuses as well as lingers like warmth– in the hazy fetor of a country Irish land fill, in the silent occultism of a fermenting Malagasy remains, in the atomised, repeated paranoia induced by shedding salute, in the crystalised frustrations that follow one man with his life. In some cases it rolls off the sweaty, permeable boundaries of Empire, as an automobile for racism and xenophobia and also as a means of sanitation as well as security. Elsewhere, smell works to disprove liberal axioms of reusing as well as growth aid with psychogeographic handles the souk in Nyala, Sudan, and Detroit’s Little Hungary. An additional collection of pieces thinks about the biochemical science of fragrance and also our olfactory system– all also easy to consider approved, yet virtually difficult to electronically reproduce. Olfactory archaeology is mobilised to reveal architectural and sociohistorical traces, going across time as well as location. And finishing the sensory follower dancing is a check out the perfume industry’s gendering of natural leather, as well as exactly how it works hard to hide the human– as well as pet– body.
- Aya Al-Kadhimi’s style for this quantity continues to interrogate the printernet, with a foray into gridded social media sites and float effects. And as befitting a quantity committed to scent, we wanted to check out articulations of fragrance, also. Publish nostalgists usually rhapsodise about the stuffy, vanillic aroma of breaking down lignin, the polymer in charge of yellowing pages which old book scent. Others cite the crispness of a fresh paper, and also fingers blurred with ink. Reviewing with e-ink and backlit displays, nevertheless, has actually up until now shown to be a mainly anosmic experience. What will the pixels of tomorrow smell like?
— The Editors
FEATURED IN THIS CONCERN:
- Khairani Barokka– Can the Subaltern Scent: The Olfactory Other
- Multinational olfactory stereotypes in Indonesia, India, South Africa, and the USA
- Ali Boggs– The Corpse
- A dead lady in Madagascar, an old pastis-soaked Belgian, as well as the loosened skin of over ripe peaches
- Suzanne Fischer– Odor H-I-S-T-O-R-Y: A Guided Excursion of the Scent Exhibit
- In the coming age of olfactory archaeology, a speculative scenic tour of the gallery of tomorrow
- Adam Flynn– Under the Iron Snout: a First Handle Olfactory Expansionism
- Drug-sniffing dogs, fermented fish as well as mosquito repellent in Vietnam, the Stasi’s smell archives, Individuals Smelling, as well as techniques to make it through smellveillance
- Mary-Jo Gillian– Lot.
- A residency in a rural Irish garbage dump, the filamentine heat of rotting matter, the intimacy of olfactory area.
- Pavel Godfrey– Feeling, Memory, and also Area in Delray, Detroit.
- Post-industrial sediment in Little Budapest, a carbonaceous mixed drink of respiratory system illnesses and also mnemocide, taking off the neoliberal myth of recycling.
- Barbara Herman– An Ode To Bodies: Peau d’Espagne.
- The gendering of natural leather perfumes, and also the hidden, abject animal body at its origin.
- Anne Elizabeth Moore– Phony Snake Oil.
- Smell, hoax, as well as xenophobia in Marfa, Texas.
- Kristine Ong Muslim– The Proustian Sensation.
- A missing out on pet, the assertive scratchiness of lemongrass, the odor of river water, the frowning fustiness of mothballs.
- Charles Reid– Nietzsche and also the Electric Nose.
- The idleness of Nature, synaesthesia, as well as building an electric nose.
- Erika Renedo Illarregi– Scent Portraits.
- Exactly how might a scent be archived like a polaroid or instagram?
- Adam Rothstein– The Olfactographic Capacities of the Human Mind.
- Smelling the traces of style and also mapping odourous city geographies.
- Francisco Salas Pérez– Impeccable Tenderness.
- Papayas in Xalapa, the displaced remembrances of diaspora, and running away the Proustian straitjacket.
- Manuel Schwab– Petroleum, Frankincense, and Incense.
- A souk in Nyala, Sudan, a lake of petroleum, and the carnivorousness of the development-industrial facility.
- Mark West– The Smell of OCD.
- The shadiness of burning salute, and also the slipping question of OCD.
