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Capitalism and the senses /
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 se...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Hagley perspectives on business and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series editor's foreword
- Introduction
- PART I Framing Capitalism and the Senses
- Chapter 1 "Use Not Perfumery to Flavor Soup" The Science of the Senses in Aesthetic Capitalism
- Chapter 2 Chasing Flavor: Sensory Science and the Economy
- Chapter 3 Richer Sounds: Capitalism, Musical Instruments, and the Cold War Sonic Divide
- PART II Resisting Rationalization
- Chapter 4 Altered States and Gustatory Taste: The Sensory Synergies of Whiskey Marketing in the Mid-Twentieth- Century United States
- Chapter 5 The Psychophysics of Taste and Smell: From Experimental Science to Commercial Tool
- Chapter 6 Sky's the Limit: Capitalism, the Senses, and the Failure of Commercial Supersonic Aviation in the United States
- Chapter 7 Sounding Maritime Metal: On Weathering Steel and Listening to Capitalism at Sea
- PART III Production
- Chapter 8 Making Human Trash Tasty: A History of Sweet Cattle Feed in the Progressive Era
- Chapter 9 Getting a Handle on It: Thomas Lamb, Mass Production, and Touch in Design History
- PART IV Marketplace
- Chapter 10 Fragrance and Fair Women: Perfumers and Consumers in Modern London
- Chapter 11 Sold on Softness: DuPont Synthetics and Sensory Experience
- Chapter 12 Feminine Touches: The Sensory World of Lady Hilton
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index