Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics II: Troubles with the Object

• Published in: Social studies of science Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 474 - 502
• Main Author: Alač, Morana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.06.2020; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Dominance; Enactment; Ethnography; Intersubjectivity; Laboratories; Odorants; Odors; Olfaction; Psychophysics; Semiotics; Smell; Submerging; Visual observation; olfaction; environment; ethnomethodology; sensory ethnography; materiality

This article takes advantage of the sense of smell’s peculiar spatiality to reflect on how we may render our engagement with the world other than through manipulating well-defined objects. The lived spatiality associated with olfaction is not reducible to the known parameters of ‘distant observation...