ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on affect, exploring sensorial experiences and their expression through smells, tastes, colours, sounds and touch. I develop a more sensitive practice in relation to our noticings, feelings and senses, and carry these into our thinking and writing practices of the boipara. The chapter examines the nature of walking in the market as a political act, and it also explores and reflects on the potential of walking as a practice-based research methodology. Tying in the experience of walking and wandering in conjunction with the sensorial registers of smell, colour and soundscape within the boipara, the chapter demonstrates how the second-hand book market works as an affective and sensorial assemblage, giving the space its unique rhythm and cultural fabric.
