ABSTRACT

This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic, creative, and artistic spaces. It studies how local cultures of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are impacted by global discourses and media, such as television, popular music, digital media, and literature. The authors look at sense-making practices and spatial discourses through an interconnected discussion on thought and experience that seeks to present a multidimensional cartography of the global, the local, and the glocal, to closely analyze the phenomenon of globalization. The volume is an investigation of the possibilities of alternate, sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified, ethical, biopolitical worldview that challenges the disparity of its fragments while speculating on their synesthetic conditionality.

A unique contribution, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, media studies, cultural studies, literary cultures, post-colonial studies, globalization studies, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, and social anthropology.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

part Section One|54 pages

Traversing Acoustic Spaces

chapter 1|12 pages

On Acoustic Justice

chapter 3|12 pages

Through After Hours

Spatiality and Post-Fordist Unbecoming

chapter 4|15 pages

Singing Rivers

Spatial Discourses and Milieu-Specific Analysis

part Section Two|50 pages

Mapping Artistic Spaces

chapter 5|15 pages

Creolizers, Collaborators, Tastemakers

The Curious Case of the Weavers of Thieux

chapter 6|11 pages

Filling the Silver Dots

Cognitive Militarism, Populist Healing Practices, and the Rise of the Neo-Gestalt Guru

chapter 7|12 pages

Spatial Poems

On Planetary Communication Through Multi-Sensory Artistic Performance

chapter 8|10 pages

Taste of Choice

Making Sense of Food in the Indian Blogosphere

part Section Three|76 pages

Reorienting Narrative Spaces

part Section Four|84 pages

Charting Visual and Virtual Spaces

chapter 14|12 pages

Identities and Intensities

Comics as “Blocs of Sensation”

chapter 15|15 pages

Unwittification of the Collective Subject

Analogizing Bird Box, “Khudito Pashan,” and Contemporary COVID-19–afflicted Society

chapter 17|10 pages

Made in Heaven

Intersectionality and Hyper-Aesthetics in the Making of Delhi and the “Dilliwala”

chapter 18|14 pages

Unreal City

Expressions of Tokyo in Video Games

chapter 19|16 pages

Representing Asia in Cyberpunk Films

Race, Gender, and Techno-Orientalism in Rupert Sanders' Ghost in the Shell