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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 60–83.
Published: 01 May 2017
... encounter with such ice will be impossible. The threat to human visual and sensory experience is thus entangled with the politics and realities of glacial melt. On Twitter during the Paris installation, Eliasson captioned a nighttime photograph of the melting ice, “Night watch: the ice doesn’t sleep. Keep...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 414–432.
Published: 01 November 2021
... transforms throughout time. © 2021 Philip Hüpkes and Gabriele Dürbeck 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). geology and art sensory experience anthropocenic temporality materiality Since it was first proposed...
View articletitled, Aesthetics in a Changing World—Reflecting the Anthropocene Condition through the Works of Jason deCaires Taylor and Robert Smithson
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Climate
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 175–178.
Published: 01 May 2015
... selves in a wind that scatters the cherry blossoms, so do we apprehend our wilting selves in the very heat of summer that scorches down on plants and trees in a spell of dry weather. 4 It is this sensory experience of weather that conditions cultural responses to human dwelling...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 201–223.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in environmental knowledge may lie in their contentment to think from a relatively limited range of sensory experience. In The Origins of Creativity , Edward O. Wilson argues that the scope of humanistic inquiry has been narrowly anthropocentric because the limited sensory capacity of humans to perceive...
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Sensory Co-laboring: Mine Detection Dogs and Handlers in Humanitarian Demining in Colombia
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (3): 30–51.
Published: 01 November 2023
... ethnographic sites, they insist that sensing “requires work and produces value” and that sensory experiences are stimulated and disciplined through specific settings and apparatuses. 56 Hence, perception does not involve singular bodies but is distributed among people, techniques, technologies...
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What Is the Terroir of Synthetic Yeast?
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 40–62.
Published: 01 May 2018
...—will become relevant in terms of how this and other synthetic biology products fit into the legal and cultural codes of acceptable and desirable wine making. Terroir is moreover not applied solely to wine but is a tool for asking about how something created in and through sensory experience connects...
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Ambience
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 571–574.
Published: 01 November 2022
... sensory gating. In an autobiographical essay aptly titled “The Trees Step Out of the Forest,” Barbara Ehrenreich describes her first dissociative experience, which happened while she was in the woods: “Something peeled off the visible world, taking with it all meaning, inference, association, and words...
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Astrobiology and the Ultraviolet World
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 378–397.
Published: 01 November 2017
... tissue, and all sensory experiences are modes of touching and thus related to tactility.” 30 Pallasmaa insists that our eyes touch, and he suggests that, through vision, we touch the Sun and the stars. So whereas our feet touch Earth, our eyes touch the Sun. From this viewpoint, we are as much...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 397–420.
Published: 01 November 2018
... could imply the absenting of direct bodily interaction with the forest. More in line with the historiography of the region, such a Cartesian division stems from colonial ideas prevalent in the eighteenth century, which associated bodily sensory experience with the “wild African.” In 1793...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 23–44.
Published: 01 March 2025
... on woven reed mats that cover the floor amid sounds of water trickling overhead. The installation thus stages an immersive experience of different states of water, from evaporation, via precipitation, through filtration to ingestion, where sensorial experience is an invitation to embody the water cycle...
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Environmental Humanities (2025) 17 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2025
...—in short, how users experience technology—is highly problematic. Sensory intolerance and the idea that dry toilets were “something backward” caused the failure. 155 As Ordos used its burgeoning mineral wealth to divert water from the Yellow River, flush toilets became cheaper and living standards rose...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 243–260.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... Launching on the water ( fig. 1 ) immediately brought a sense of calm to many participants, while the intimacy of paddling two per canoe allowed for extended conversations in the environments we were moving through. The experience would bring attention to the sensory affordances, perspectives, and relations...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Experimenting</span> with Water-Focused Participatory Research Methods: Toward New Forms of Question Asking in a Time of Socio-ecological Upheaval
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Being Dumped
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 180–193.
Published: 01 May 2019
... experiences owing to the eclipse of multiple stimuli by one or two that outshine, outsmell (and so on) the rest. We live in the state of a sensory underload when dominant sensations muscle out those that lay a weaker claim on our capacity to attend to the other and to ourselves. The massive fall...
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Becoming-with Donkeyness: A Research-Creation
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 215–231.
Published: 01 July 2023
... the viewers. In redeeming the world back to us through its ability of diffraction, cinema does not necessarily work as a means of mastering the world; instead, it can offer the viewers a fresh sensory experience of the fragments of the world. 31 In strapping the camera to the donkey, I wished to propose...
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Military Cetology
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2016) 8 (2): 196–214.
Published: 01 November 2016
... as acoustemology, we must connect the experience of short, percussive, refracting sounds (clicks) to the objectives of naval researchers. Listening to cetacean clicks, researchers were enticed by an apparent “directional character,” by the manner in which clicks could propagate as “beams” that revealed “focus...
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Skin
Open Access
Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 261–264.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of the body to external stimuli—and plant life growing out of them, Yi’s work stages skin as sensory infrastructures that mediate the viewer’s aesthetic encounter with nonhuman life. Sensory media enfolding the viewer into the aesthetic ecology of skin, Yi’s frames dramatize the haptic hub of human...
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The Phenomenology of Animal Life
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 125–148.
Published: 01 May 2014
...: Animal Psyche, Empathy, and Moral Subjectivity .” In Phenomenology and the Non-Human Animal: At the Limits of Experience , edited by Painter Corinne and Lotz Christian , 97 - 115 . Dordrecht : Springer , 2007 . Plumwood Val . “ The Politics of Reason: Toward a Feminist Logic...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., “Membranism,” 166 . 19. Samuels, “Membranism,” 160, 167 . 20. Samuels, “Membranism,” 167 . 21. Synesthesia is the experience of sensory melding whereby, for instance, sounds are experienced as having certain colors. 22. Sobchack, Carnal Thoughts , 65, 59, 61 ; Hayward...
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Afterword: Ecological Inqueeries
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 718–725.
Published: 01 November 2022
.../how-quarantine-reshaping-queer-nightlife/612865 . Malatino Hil . Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2019 . Margulis Lynn , and Sagan Dorion . Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 187–212.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., however, share similarities with certain forms of carbon). Unlike these materials, gas refuses to present itself readily for human somatic or sensorial experience. During our visit to Quintero Bay, we did not see gas, nor did we smell, touch, or taste it. We were not moved, seduced into contemplation...
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