Disturbance, Translation, Enculturation: Necessary Research in New Media, Technology, and the Senses

This article examines a research program centered at the nexus of five seemingly unrelated fields: art practice with new technologies, anthropology, cultural studies of technology, the development of new technologies that seek to make new forms of sensation, and Indigenous new media studies. First, I articulate a broader area of interdisciplinary research called sensory studies. Subsequently, and switching to the pronoun "we," I briefly describe the aims of Sensory Entanglements: a collaborative research program that asks how different bodies and cultures can transform/resist dominant paradigms of power and oppression through the senses. Finally, I conclude with a broader set of questions around the increased role the senses are playing in the organization of new modes of political-socio-technical reason.