Tag: Senses

Senses of the Subject


Free Download Judith Butler, "Senses of the Subject"
English | ISBN: 0823264661 | 2015 | 228 pages | AZW3 | 371 KB
This book brings together a group of Judith Butler’s philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray, and Fanon. Drawing on her early work on Hegelian desire and her subsequent reflections on the psychic life of power and the possibility of self-narration, this book considers how passions such as desire, rage, love, and grief are bound up with becoming a subject within specific historical fields of power.

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Beyond Five Senses Awaken Your Sensory Super Powers [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0D3RQNX88 | 2024 | 4 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 242 MB
Author: Robyn Landau, Katherine Templar-Lewis
Narrator: Robyn Landau, Katherine Templar-Lewis

In Beyond Five Senses, hosts Robyn Landau and Katherine Templar Lewis, experts in neuroscience and neuroaesthetics, invite you on an exploration our extraordinary sensory abilities lying beyond the traditional five as we know them. You will also learn about the superpower-like capabilities of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch that we often overlook. This show is an experiential way to learn about the science behind your senses and well-being, blending real-life stories and interviews with pioneering neuroscientists. It unveils our hidden sensory superpowers, including our sense of smell, hearing, our physical and even internal bodies, and how by tapping into them, you can boost your health, creativity, connection, and well-being.

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Coming to Senses


Free Download Melisa A. Salerno José Roberto Pellini, Andrés Zarankin, "Coming to Senses"
English | ISBN: 144387423X | 2015 | 198 pages | PDF | 1494 KB
Every culture conceives of the senses in different ways, establishing their own models and sensory hierarchies. Despite the importance of the senses in human experience, archaeology has generally neglected the sensory dimension of the material world. In response to this lacuna, the contributions to this volume incorporate all the senses in imaginative scenarios, in order to stimulate new ways of seeing and conceptualising archaeology and bring back the self to this science. The international character of the essays brought together here, including researchers and case studies from across the globe, provides a variety of perspectives on this topic from a number of scales of analysis. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, including academic researchers and the general public concerned with archaeology, history, anthropology, and sociology, and will provide readers with a greater understanding of the dynamics of the senses, the relationship between narratives and societies, and the cultural world.

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Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009355546 | 241 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
How do the senses shape the way we perceive, understand, and remember ritual experiences? This book applies cognitive and sensory approaches to Roman rituals, reconnecting readers with religious experiences as members of an embodied audience. These approaches allow us to move beyond the literate elites to examine broader audiences of diverse individuals, who experienced rituals as participants and/or performers. Case studies of ritual experiences from a variety of places, spaces, and contexts across the Roman world, including polytheistic and Christian rituals, state rituals, private rituals, performances, and processions, demonstrate the dynamic and broad-scale application that cognitive approaches offer for ancient religion, paving the way for future interdisciplinary engagement. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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Sensing Sacred Exploring the Human Senses in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care


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English | ISBN: 1498531237 | 2016 | 206 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Sensing Sacred is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of "religion" and "body" through the religious lens of practical theology, with an emphasis on sensation as the embodied means in which human beings know themselves, others, and the divine in the world. The manuscript argues that all human interaction and practice, including religious praxis, engages "body" through at least one of the human senses (touch, smell, hearing, taste, sight, kinestics/proprioception). Unfortunately, body-and, more specifically and ironically, sensation-is eclipsed in contemporary academic scholarship that is inherently bent toward the realm of theory and ideas. This is unfortunate because it neglects bodies, physical or communal, as the repository and generator of culturally conditioned ideas and theory. It is ironic because all knowledge transmission minimally requires several senses including sight, touch, and hearing. Sensing Sacred is organized into two parts. The first section devotes a chapter to each human sense as an avenue of accessing religious experience; while the second section explores religious practices as they specifically focus on one or more senses. The overarching aim of the volume is to explicitly highlight each sense and utilize the theoretical lenses of practical theology to bring to vivid life the connections between essential sensation and religious thinking and practice.

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Impact Design With All Senses Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium, Berlin 2019 (2024)


Free Download Impact: Design With All Senses: Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium, Berlin 2019 by Christoph Gengnagel
English | EPUB | 2020 | 802 Pages | ISBN : 3030298280 | 229.75 MB
This book reflects and expands on the current trend in the building industry to understand, simulate and ultimately design buildings by taking into consideration the interlinked elements and forces that act on them. Shifting away from the traditional focus, which was exclusively on building tasks, this approach presents new challenges in all areas of the industry, from material and structural to the urban scale. The book presents contributions including research papers and case studies, providing a comprehensive overview of the field as well as perspectives from related disciplines, such as computer science.

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Teaching World Languages with the Five Senses


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032265752 | 119 Pages | PDF (True) | 16 MB
With this fun, practical guide, you will have everything you need to re-envision and reinvigorate your world language classroom. Author Elizabeth Porter draws on a brain-based approach to show how language learning is a sensory experience. Students can effectively learn languages and improve retention through activities and lessons that incorporate the five senses – sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. Chapters include real-world, research-backed examples and classroom strategies and activities ready for use. An essential resource for world language teachers, this book introduces language learning philosophy and an out-of-the-box, effective approach that uses neuroscience combined with best practices to promote a highly engaging language learning environment.

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