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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section One|54 pages
Traversing Acoustic Spaces
part Section Two|50 pages
Mapping Artistic Spaces
chapter 6|11 pages
Filling the Silver Dots
chapter 7|12 pages
Spatial Poems
part Section Three|76 pages
Reorienting Narrative Spaces
chapter 11|13 pages
The Poet as a Queer Flâneur
part Section Four|84 pages
Charting Visual and Virtual Spaces