BOOK EVENTS
Center for African Studies Book Club: “Nightbloom”
Noon-1:30 p.m. July 27, virtual
The Center for African Studies is relaunching its book club series with “Nightbloom” by Pitt alumna Peace Adzo Medie, a moving novel about the unbreakable power of female friendship. A virtual discussion of the book will be held on July 27. Register for the discussion and find where to access the book here: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/africa/african-studies-book-club
NEW BOOKS
“How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation,” by Mark Paterson, associate professor of sociology, Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
The years between 1833 and 1945 fundamentally transformed science’s understanding of the body’s inner senses, revolutionizing fields like philosophy, the social sciences, and cognitive science. In “How We Became Sensorimotor,” Mark Paterson provides a systematic account of this transformative period, while also demonstrating its substantial implications for current explorations into phenomenology, embodied consciousness, the extended mind, and theories of the sensorimotor, the body, and embodiment.
Each chapter takes a particular sense and historicizes its formation by means of recent scientific studies, case studies, or coverage in the media. Complete with original archival research featuring illustrations and correspondence, “How We Became Sensorimotor” shows how the shifting and sometimes contested historical background to our understandings of the senses are being extended even today.
“Consumption and Everyday Life” (3rd Edition), by Mark Paterson, associate professor of sociology, Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences (Routledge, 2023)
With an emphasis on everyday life, this text offers a lively and perceptive account of the key theories and ideas which dominate the field of consumption and consumer culture. This third revised and expanded edition is a major update of the text of the second edition, adding new chapters on youth culture and consumption, retail psychology, gender and consumption, the globalization of food, and digital consumption and platform capitalism.
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