Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics I: Troubles with the Subject

• Published in: Social studies of science Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 440 - 473
• Main Author: Alač, Morana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.06.2020; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Dominance; Ethnography; Humans; Intersubjectivity; Laboratories; Language; Olfaction; Psychophysics; Smell; Smell - physiology; Submerging; Vocabulary; olfaction; ethnomethodology; subjectivity; sensory ethnography

This article provides an experience-oriented relational account that goes beyond a human control of the world. Rather than working with the notion of intersubjectivity (commonly evoked in sensory STS, and still conserving the subject/object opposition), the article reports on how the sense of smell...