ABSTRACT
Paying attention means slowing down and accepting that intrusive interstices open up even in the midst of an urgency. Sensory education is not a solitary, innate or acquired process. This book highlights the social labour of sensory lessons, pointing out how sensory education takes care and maintenance of objects, involves set-ups and design. There is more work to be done on how sensing is shaped by economic factors, by class, by inequalities in the world production of goods and by traditional centres of knowledge production and in conversation with disabilities studies literature. The format of the book, with practical sensory lessons and pages for observation, with invitations to read in particular ways, and conduct academic workshops by attending to the sensory and material, are attempts at opening up other possibilities for apprehension.
