Roundtable with Chair Members, Maxime Le Calvé, Shauna Janssen, and Stefan Helmreich at the Uncommon Senses IV Conference
May 4th
The Concordia University Research Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality along with Maxime Le Calvé and Shauna Janssen Maxime Le Calvé presents a round-table based on the workshop “More-than-Ethnographic Probes: On scales, design anthropology and sensory practices beyond-the-human” at the Uncommon Senses IV Conference with Stefan Helmreich as discussant.
On Thursday 4th May 2023
The senses work together in multifaceted and even dissonant ways. However, recognition of this multiplicity has been stymied by the emphasis on the “prereflective unity” of the senses within the phenomenology of perception, and the focus on harmonious integration within cognitive neuroscience. The collision of the senses is inherent to Marshall McLuhan’s notion of the “collideroscope” of the sensorium. With this conference, we seek to explore the potentialities of this conceptualization.
In the same spirit, the conference will welcome contributions relying on differing disciplinary perspectives. These perspectives may complement one another (multidisciplinary research) or they may coalesce (interdisciplinary research). “Cross-disciplinary research” is the expression we prefer – “crossing” in the sense of blending, but also of confronting.
The aim of the conference is to highlight the relevance of the emergent understanding of the collision of the senses to thinking about some burning issues of our times:
The senses work together in multifaceted and even dissonant ways. However, recognition of this multiplicity has been stymied by the emphasis on the “prereflective unity” of the senses within the phenomenology of perception, and the focus on harmonious integration within cognitive neuroscience. The collision of the senses is inherent to Marshall McLuhan’s notion of the “collideroscope” of the sensorium. With this conference, we seek to explore the potentialities of this conceptualization.
In the same spirit, the conference will welcome contributions relying on differing disciplinary perspectives. These perspectives may complement one another (multidisciplinary research) or they may coalesce (interdisciplinary research). “Cross-disciplinary research” is the expression we prefer – “crossing” in the sense of blending, but also of confronting.
The aim of the conference is to highlight the relevance of the emergent understanding of the collision of the senses to thinking about some burning issues of our times:
This round-table based on the workshop “More-than-Ethnographic Probes: On scales, design anthropology and sensory practices beyond-the-human” includes Alice Jarry, Shauna Janssen, Stefan Helmreich, Maxime Le Calvé, Brice Ammar-Khodja and Jacqueline Beaumont.
