David Howes, kanadsky filozof a sociolog, organizoval pokusy s deprivaciou vnemu a pocitku. Clovek zaujimavo reaguje, ked ho nechaju tancovat vo vode zabaleneho tak, aby nic nevidel ani nepocul, alebo ak je umiestneny do pozicie, kde nemoze rozoznavat vnemy (pre priklad, Bratislavcanom staci vyjst na takmer ktorukolvek ulicu a vypocut si budovanie hmotnej kultury). Ako hovori nie nespomenutelna reklama - vnimam, teda som!

The emergence of sensory studies, as this dynamic new area of inquiry could be called, has come at the end of a long series of turns in the human sciences. For instance, in addition to the openings described in the box “Sensory Stirrings,” there was the linguistic turn of the 1960s and 70s inspired by Saussurian linguistics (and Wittgenstein's notion of language games) that gave us the idea of culture as "structured like a language" or "text" and of knowledge as a function of "discourse." This was followed by the pictorial turn of the 1980s, which emphasized the role of visual imagery in human communication -- particularly in our "civilization of the image" -- and gave rise to the ever-expanding field of visual culture studies. The 1990s witnessed two new developments: the corporeal turn, which introduced the notion of "embodiment" as a paradigm for cultural analysis, and the material turn, which directed attention to the physical infrastructure of the social world, giving birth to material culture studies.

While these different turns represent important shifts in models of interpretation, the emergent focus on the cultural life of the senses is more in the nature of a revolution. That is, the sensorial revolution in the human sciences encompasses and builds on the insights of each of these approaches, but also seeks to correct for their excesses -- offsetting the verbocentrism of the linguistic turn, the visualism of the pictorial turn, the materialism of the material turn, for the latter shift occludes the multisensoriality of objects and architectures even as it stresses their physicality -- by emphasizing the dynamic, relational (intersensory, multimedia) nature of our everyday engagement with the world.

http://www.david-howes.com/senses/
http://www.david-howes.com/DH-research-sampler-arch-senses.htm