ABSTRACT
The sensory realm occupies a privileged position in market-driven economies. The more-extreme-beyond triad represents a construct of sensory experience that has become potent in the present period. The abuse of the senses as a method of torture implicitly acknowledges the importance of sensory balance to one’s wellbeing. The relationship between pleasure and the senses is in the process reconceived. This conception of pleasure also estranges us from our senses, a far more serious consequence. Our senses are forms of intelligence, a faculty with which we are endowed. The senses become subordinate to a concept of pleasure; a medium in a process that is supposedly about their insatiable appetite. To return to our senses is to embark on a complex, interpretive process. To return to the senses is to settle for a tempo appropriate to honouring process.
