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The Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham is delighted to welcome Professor Michael Bull to give a research seminar on Wednesday 26 November 2014. All welcome.
University of Nottingham
University Park Campus,
Trent B40, 5pm
To War with the Senses: Space, Distance and Cognition in a fully Mediated World
Professor Michael Bull (University of Sussex)
This talk focuses upon a multi-sensory analysis of the media, and it’s training of the human subject. This training, I argue, involves the simultaneous enhancement and restriction of our sensory experience of the world; enhancing the senses of sight, sound and more recently touch to the exclusion or diminishing of taste, smell and embodiment itself. Media consumption has progressively problematized the relations and meanings attached to notions of subject and object, space and place, the real and the virtual, and in so doing has created problems of ‘recognition’ or what Jonathan Crary has recently referred to as ‘the moral compass’ of subjects. The talk will discuss these issues with reference a range of media examples.
Biography
Michael Bull is Professor of Sound Studies at the University of Sussex. His books include Sounding Out the City, Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life (Berg 2000), Sound Moves, iPod Culture and Urban Experience (Routledge 2007), The Auditory Culture Reader (Bloomsbury 2004, co-edited with Les Back), and Sound Studies (Routledge 2013). He is the founder of two journals, Senses and Society Journal (with David Howes) and Sound Studies (with Veit Erlmann). He is currently writing a book on the history of sonic connections for the University of Illinois Press.
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