{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"University of Minnesota Press","title":"Scent and scentsibility: How smell shapes present and possible worlds.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4581,"description":"How does smell attune us to possibility? Hsuan L. Hsu studies smell’s capacity to shape our worlds, our futures, and our modes of being and relating—noting that olfactory worldmaking is going on around us all the time. Hsu is joined here in conversation with Ally Louks.Hsuan L. Hsu is professor of English at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Olfactory Worldmaking; Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization; The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics; and Air Conditioning.Ally Louks is an author, literary scholar, and public academic who teaches at the University of Cambridge. Louks has several book projects in progress including Under Your Nose: The Pleasures and Politics of Smell.REFERENCES:Hsuan Hsu / The Smell of Risk Warren CariouRenee StoutAnicka Yi / In Love With The World, Tate Modern exhibitionTanaïs / In Sensorium Bruno LatourErica Fretwell / Sensory Experiments Chanelle DupuisTeresa BrennanJ. Douglas PorteousProust’s madeleine Jhumpa LahiriSaidiya HartmanManu Vimalassery, Juniana Hu Pegues, and Alyosha Goldstein, “Introduction: On Colonial Unknowing,” Theory & Event 19, no. 4.Lisa Lowe / The Intimacies of Four Continents Roshanak Kheshti / We See with the SkinChristina SharpeSylvia WynterOctavia Butler / FledglingLarissa Lai / Salt Fish GirlClaus Wedekind / Sweaty T-Shirt experimentWilliam Carlos Williams / Smell!Elizabeth Freeman / Time BindsByung-Chul Han / The Scent of TimeMilena Popova / DubconKandice Chuh / The Difference Aesthetics MakesOlfactory Worldmaking by Hsuan L. Hsu is available in the Forerunners series from University of Minnesota Press, in print and in an open access edition. Thank you for listening.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fAwENHzmp9h_PaRnnj_lblPe4NxpUbbLPc46_lIefAU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZDM5/YzQwMzU5YTA2NTdh/MDAzOGFkZGNlNjk3/NTRjOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}