Zum Hauptinhalt springen
Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.
Capitalism and the Senses
Buch von Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Sprache: Englisch

74,70 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Kategorien:
Beschreibung
Capitalism and the Senses is the first edited volume to explore how the forces of capitalism are entangled with everyday sensory experience. If the senses have a history, as Karl Marx wrote, then that history is inseparable from the development of capitalism, which has both taken advantage of the senses and influenced how sensory experience has changed over time. This pioneering collection shows how seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching have both shaped and been shaped by commercial interests from the turn of the twentieth century to our own time. From the manipulation of taste and texture in the food industry to the careful engineering of the feel of artificial fabrics, capitalist enterprises have worked to commodify the senses in a wide variety of ways. Drawing on history, anthropology, geography, and other fields, the volume's essays analyze not only where this effort has succeeded but also where the senses have resisted control and the logic of markets. The result is an innovative ensemble that demonstrates how the drive to exploit sensorial experience for profit became a defining feature of capitalist modernity and establishes the senses as an important dimension of the history of capitalism. Contributors: Nicholas Anderman, Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Jessica P. Clark, Ai Hisano, Lisa Jacobson, Sven Kube, Grace Lees-Maffei, Ingemar Pettersson, David Suisman, Ana María Ulloa, Nicole Welk-Joerger.
Capitalism and the Senses is the first edited volume to explore how the forces of capitalism are entangled with everyday sensory experience. If the senses have a history, as Karl Marx wrote, then that history is inseparable from the development of capitalism, which has both taken advantage of the senses and influenced how sensory experience has changed over time. This pioneering collection shows how seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching have both shaped and been shaped by commercial interests from the turn of the twentieth century to our own time. From the manipulation of taste and texture in the food industry to the careful engineering of the feel of artificial fabrics, capitalist enterprises have worked to commodify the senses in a wide variety of ways. Drawing on history, anthropology, geography, and other fields, the volume's essays analyze not only where this effort has succeeded but also where the senses have resisted control and the logic of markets. The result is an innovative ensemble that demonstrates how the drive to exploit sensorial experience for profit became a defining feature of capitalist modernity and establishes the senses as an important dimension of the history of capitalism. Contributors: Nicholas Anderman, Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Jessica P. Clark, Ai Hisano, Lisa Jacobson, Sven Kube, Grace Lees-Maffei, Ingemar Pettersson, David Suisman, Ana María Ulloa, Nicole Welk-Joerger.
Über den Autor

Regina Lee Blaszczyk is Professor of Business History and Leadership Chair in the History of Business and Society at the University of Leeds.

David Suisman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Foreword
Roger Horowitz

Introduction
Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman

Part I. Framing Capitalism and the Senses

Chapter 1. "Use Not Perfumery to Flavor Soup": The Science of the Senses in Aesthetic Capitalism
Ai Hisano

Chapter 2. Chasing Flavor: Sensory Science and the Economy
Ingemar Pettersson

Chapter 3. Richer Sounds: Capitalism, Musical Instruments, and the Cold War Sonic Divide
Sven Kube

Part II. Resisting Rationalization

Chapter 4. Altered States and Gustatory Taste: The Sensory Synergies of Whiskey Marketing in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States
Lisa Jacobson

Chapter 5. The Psychophysics of Taste and Smell: From Experimental Science to Commercial Tool
Ana María Ulloa

Chapter 6. Sky's the Limit: Capitalism, the Senses, and the Failure of Commercial Supersonic Aviation in the United States
David Suisman

Chapter 7. Sounding Maritime Metal: On Weathering Steel and Listening to Capitalism at Sea
Nicholas Anderman

Part III. Production

Chapter 8. Making Human Trash Tasty: A History of Sweet Cattle Feed in the Progressive Era
Nicole Welk-Joerger

Chapter 9. Getting a Handle on It: Thomas Lamb, Mass Production, and Touch in Design History
Grace Lees-Maffei

Part IV. Marketplace

Chapter 10. Fragrance and Fair Women: Perfumers and Consumers in Modern London
Jessica P. Clark

Chapter 11. Sold on Softness: DuPont Synthetics and Sensory Experience
Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Chapter 12. Feminine Touches: The Sensory World of Lady Hilton
Megan J. Elias

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781512824209
ISBN-10: 1512824208
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Blaszczyk, Regina Lee
Redaktion: Suisman, David
Hersteller: University of Pennsylvania Press
Maße: 235 x 157 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,662 kg
Artikel-ID: 124041714
Über den Autor

Regina Lee Blaszczyk is Professor of Business History and Leadership Chair in the History of Business and Society at the University of Leeds.

David Suisman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Foreword
Roger Horowitz

Introduction
Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman

Part I. Framing Capitalism and the Senses

Chapter 1. "Use Not Perfumery to Flavor Soup": The Science of the Senses in Aesthetic Capitalism
Ai Hisano

Chapter 2. Chasing Flavor: Sensory Science and the Economy
Ingemar Pettersson

Chapter 3. Richer Sounds: Capitalism, Musical Instruments, and the Cold War Sonic Divide
Sven Kube

Part II. Resisting Rationalization

Chapter 4. Altered States and Gustatory Taste: The Sensory Synergies of Whiskey Marketing in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States
Lisa Jacobson

Chapter 5. The Psychophysics of Taste and Smell: From Experimental Science to Commercial Tool
Ana María Ulloa

Chapter 6. Sky's the Limit: Capitalism, the Senses, and the Failure of Commercial Supersonic Aviation in the United States
David Suisman

Chapter 7. Sounding Maritime Metal: On Weathering Steel and Listening to Capitalism at Sea
Nicholas Anderman

Part III. Production

Chapter 8. Making Human Trash Tasty: A History of Sweet Cattle Feed in the Progressive Era
Nicole Welk-Joerger

Chapter 9. Getting a Handle on It: Thomas Lamb, Mass Production, and Touch in Design History
Grace Lees-Maffei

Part IV. Marketplace

Chapter 10. Fragrance and Fair Women: Perfumers and Consumers in Modern London
Jessica P. Clark

Chapter 11. Sold on Softness: DuPont Synthetics and Sensory Experience
Regina Lee Blaszczyk

Chapter 12. Feminine Touches: The Sensory World of Lady Hilton
Megan J. Elias

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781512824209
ISBN-10: 1512824208
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Blaszczyk, Regina Lee
Redaktion: Suisman, David
Hersteller: University of Pennsylvania Press
Maße: 235 x 157 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,662 kg
Artikel-ID: 124041714
Warnhinweis