Globalization and Sense-Making Practices

This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic, creative, and artistic spaces. It studies how local cultures of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are impacted by global discourses and media, such as television, popular music, digital media, and literature. The authors look at sense-making practices and spatial discourses through an interconnected discussion on thought and experience that seeks to present a multidimensional cartography of the global, the local, and the glocal, to closely analyze the phenomenon of globalization. The volume is an investigation of the possibilities of alternate, sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified, ethical, biopolitical worldview that challenges the disparity of its fragments while speculating on their synesthetic conditionality.

A unique contribution, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, media studies, cultural studies, literary cultures, post-colonial studies, globalization studies, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, and social anthropology.

Section One: Traversing Acoustic Spaces

1. On Acoustic Justice

Brandon LaBelle

2. Björk's Posthuman Hypomnemata and the Future of Music Video

Susan George

3. Through Afterhours: Spatiality and Post-Fordist Unbecoming

Ayush Biswas

4. Singing Rivers: Spatial Discourses and Milieu-Specific Analysis

Steven S. George

Section Two: Mapping Artistic Spaces

5. Creolisers, Collaborators, Tastemakers, and the Weavers of Thieux Translation and Exegesis of a Short Story by Ari Gautier

Ananya Jahanara Kabir

6. Filling the Silver Dots: Cognitive Militarism, Populist Healing Practices and the Rise of the Neo-Gestalt Guru

Umar Nizaruddin

7. Spacial Poems. On planetary communication through multisensory artistic performance

Pawel Michna

8. Taste of Choice: Making Sense of Food in the Indian Blogosphere

Sakshi Dogra

Section Three: Reorienting Narrative Spaces

9. Articulating Shakespeare Globally

David Schalkwyk

10. Mapping Dalit Women's Lifeworld in Bama's Narratives

Nishat Haider

11. The poet as a queer flaneur: Envisaging the glocal city in the poetry of Frank O'Hara

Srinjoyee Dutta

12. Reflections on Transnational Globalization in Olga Tokarczuk's Flights

Nishtha Pandey

13. (En)countering the Oil in Malayalam Petrofiction and the Production of Proletariats

Grace Mariam Raju

Section Four: Charting Visual and Virtual Spaces

14. Identities and Intensities: Comics as 'Blocs of Sensation'

Ajith Cherian

15. Unwittification of the collective subject: an exploration of the phenomenon of unwittification in Bird Box, Khudito Pashan and contemporary Covid-19 afflicted society

Soham Adhikari

16. Interrogating political and urban cartographies of Delhi in Sarnath Banerjee's Corridor and Vishwajyoti Ghosh's Delhi Calm

Mohit Abrol

17. Made in Heaven: Intersectionality and Hyperaesthetics in the making of Delhi and the 'Dilliwala'

Namita Paul

18. Unreal City: Expressions of Tokyo in Video Games

Lakshmi Menon

19. Representing Asia in Cyberpunk Films: Race, Gender and Techno-Orientalism in Rupert Sanders' Ghost in the Shell

Deeksha Yadav

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