Remote Sensing
Touch at a Distance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12358043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Loredana Farina (0000-0002-6418-8722, West Virginia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 197-201 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Exemplaria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-2573 • E-ISSN: 1753-3074 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10412573.2023.2242737 |
| OpenAlex | W4387678634 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Today’s remotely operated sensors extend and restructure geographies of feeling. While media theorists often claim that these sensory transformations result from recently developed machinery, this essay theorizes “remote sensing” in such a way that the phenomenon can include technologies pre-dating networked digital media. I use the well-known Pearl Manuscript (BL Cotton Nero A.x) as an example of a premodern textual artifact designed to manufacture a geographically extended tactility. My contention is that thinking about purportedly futuristic remote sensing more broadly lets us consider touch at a distance as a long-standing aesthetic and technological phenomenon.KEYWORDS: sensory historyremote sensingtouchhapticsmedieval manuscriptsbook designPearlSir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK) Notes1. All quotations of the poems are from Andrew and Waldron (Citation1987).2. Reproduced online: https://www.themappamundi.co.uk/mappa-mundi/.Additional informationNotes on contributorsLara FarinaLara Farina is Professor of English at West Virginia University. Her research focuses on sensory history, reading as a physical practice, queer embodiment, and environmental humanities. She has recently published articles on perceptions of non-human sensation, tactility and textual form, and the history of comfort in early medieval Britain. From 2015-2020, she was an editor of postmedieval, prior to which, she co-edited (with Holly Dugan) a special issue of the journal on The Intimate Senses (2012)
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Feeling · Knight · Literature · Media studies · Perception · Phenomenon · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Reading (process · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |