Crosstalk of the Senses

Join us for this unique roundtable, moderated by David Howes, where each author will offer an appreciation of the work of the author with whom they are paired.

The first pairconsists of Jeremy Stolow commenting on Polina Dimova’s At the Crossroads of the Senses: the Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism, followed by Polina Dimova presenting a review of Jeremy Stolow’s Picturing Aura. The crosstalk in this case consists of juxtaposing the notion of aura with that of synaesthesia.

The second pair is comprised of Lida Zeitlin-Wu commenting on John Lee Clark’s Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays. John Lee Clark will then present a reading of the chapter entitled “What’s Your Color? Mood-Conditioning the Postwar Domestic Interior” in Lida Zeitlin-Wu’s work-in-progress How Color Became a Technology: The Making of Chromatic Capitalism. The crosstalk here involves interrogating the “distantism” complexand the “colorism” complex from opposite angles.

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting watching live on YouTube.

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