Sense of Place Podcast

By Ailish Jane Listen to The Sense of Place Podcast here. I have had an interest in sense of place for as long as I can remember – yet, for many years I didn’t realise other people experienced and explored it too. Sense of place describes the emotive bonds and attachments people develop or experience…

The Museum Of Pictorial Culture

From Less-Known Russian Avant-garde series Lev Manovich and Julian Sunley, 2021 Although we usually assume think that first museum of modern art was MoMA (New York, 1929), an earlier museum called Museum of Pictorial Culture was established in 1919 and run by most important Russian avant-garde artists until its closing in 1929. Our essays discuss…

Rethinking Congenital Synaesthesia    

TT JOURNAL, VOL.1, ISSUE 3, PREVIEW Rethinking Congenital Synaesthesia                     David Howes, Anton Dorso Thank you, Anton, for your interest in my work, and for providing me with the opportunity to rethink the phenomenon of synaesthesia from an anthropological, or cross-cultural, perspective in response to your highly perspicacious barrage of questions.  1.    …

Film and new food rituals in the time of COVID-19

TT JOURNAL, VOL.1, ISSUE 3 preview As sensory anthropologist David Howes writes in his contribution to the Sensory Orders exhibition catalogue (curated by Chris Salter): “Sensory anthropology fleshes out the concept of the “sensory order” through analyzing how the senses are valued and combined differently in different societies. Some societies value feeling over seeing, or…