Plants and scents
My new research on medieval talismans plunges into olfactory magic and connections between plants, scents, and the cosmos.
“Talisman-images: from the cosmos to your body.” In Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity, edited by Radek Przedpełski and S. E. Wilmer. Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
“Vegetable Locomotion: A Deleuzian ethics/aesthetics of traveling plants,” in Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze, ed. Rosi Braidotti and Patricia Pisters (London: Continuum, 2012)
"Aromatic Events: how plant communication makes us more than human," at the conference "The Secret Life of Plants," Princeton. May 3, 2013. On Selected Writings page
Olfaction is central to The Skin of the Film and Touch
“Thinking Multisensory Culture,” Paragraph 31:2 (July 2008): 123-137, a special issue on cinema and the senses edited by Emma Wilson
Republished in Art and the Senses (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Carnal Aesthetics, ed. Bettina Papenburg and Marta Zarzycka (Routledge, 2013). On Selected Writings page
I occasionally give olfactory lectures, such as "Aromatic Events: how plant communication makes us more than human," at the conference "The Secret Life of Plants," Princeton, and in Vancouver for the Institute for Social Research, Or Gallery, both in 2013.
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