A Whiff of Nothing

The Atmospheric Absence of Smell

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4364571
AutoresAnette Stenslund (0000-0002-2918-5227, University of Copenhagen, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen10
Número3
Páginas341-360
Fecha de publicación2015-09-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Senses and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1745-8927 • E-ISSN: 1745-8935
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17458927.2015.1130305
OpenAlexW2328361124
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas28

This article uses the figure of “presence of absence” to consider the phenomenological significance of dimensions of smell that easily slip out of apprehension. The discussion highlights how not only loud smell but also absence of smell manages to exert an influence over the way people feel. Smells linked to emotions and bodily sensations are addressed as atmospheric, and facets of an atmospheric absence of smell are unfurled within the framework of “the smell of the hospital.” The case demonstrates how the atmospheric presence of absence of smell becomes of significance in the hospital as it is acted and reacted upon as a sense of (1) longing, (2) avoidance, (3) care and (4) cleanliness

Aesthetics · Apprehension · Atmospheric pollution · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Nothing · Olfaction · History of Medicine Studies · Neuroscience · Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology