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30 Birgit Meyer and Jojada Verrips

For consideration of how the content of the works shown may lead to shock,
vomiting, confusion, panic, euphoria, and anxiety, see Verrips 2008.
2 For a more detailed account of aisthesis, see Verrips 2006.
3 Critiques of modern perceptual regimes, as launched by Benjamin (1977)
and Buck-Morss (1992), are well founded in that they contextualize the
transformation of the sensorium, which led to foregrounding a sense such as
vision, and attempts to anesthetize other sense perceptions. Nevertheless,
ocularcentrism should not be taken at face value, as this implies a numbing of
our understanding of the modern sensorium. The point is to explore the tuning
of the senses, and their synaesthetic interferences, in specific historical settings,
such as the modern one.
4 For a more detailed outline of the notion “sensational form,” see Meyer
(2006a).