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Sensory indiscipline and affect: a study of commuter cycling

L'indiscipline sensorielle et l'affect: une étude du cyclisme navetteur

Indisciplina sensorial y afecto: un estudio de ciclismo suburbano

Pages 645-658 | Published online: 21 Aug 2012
 

Abstract

The senses act as the interface between self and environment, but in a western context powerful multisensory stimulation is increasingly constructed as marginal, deviant or in need of management/commodification. This paper brings together work on the sensory with ideas around affective intensity to explore the regulation of the individual through the senses. The notion of sensory discipline is developed through an examination of everyday commuter cycling. Based on innovative, mobile audio diaries, the intensities of sensory stimulation for the cycling body are explored. The paper concludes that commuter cycling enacts a minor resistance towards efforts to reduce the intensities of everyday affective landscapes. In turn, this resistance suggests just how pervasive sensory discipline has now become.

Les sens servent de l'interface entre le soi et l'environnement, mais dans un contexte occidental la stimulation puissante et multisensorielle se voit de plus en plus considérée comme marginale, déviant, ou bien ayant besoin de gestion/banalisation. Cet article rassemble la littérature traitant le sensoriel ainsi que des idées autour de l'intensité affective afin d'examiner la régulation de l'individu à travers ses sens. La notion de la discipline sensorielle se développe à travers d'une étude de cyclisme navetteur quotidien.

Los sentidos actúan como el interfaz entre el ser y el ambiente, pero en un contexto occidental, estimulación multisensorial poderosa está construido cada vez más como anormal, desviado o tener necesidad de dirección o mercantilización. Este articulo se une trabajo del sensorial con ideas sobre intensidad afectiva para explorar la regulación del individuo por los sentidos. La noción de disciplina sensorial está desarrollado por una examinación de ciclismo suburbano cotidiano. Basado en diarios de audio móviles innovadores, las intensidades de estimulación sensorial para el cuerpo ciclista están explorados. El articulo se concluye que ciclismo suburbano se representa una resistencia menor hacia esfuerzos reducir las intensidades de paisajes afectivos diarios. En cambio, esta resistencia se sugiere tal penetrante la disciplina sensorial ha llegado ser.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all the participants who kindly volunteered to ride around while wired up with various recording devices. The methods used for the data collection were developed as part of a separate Economic and Social Research Council funded project (RES-000-22-2375). The usual thanks (with the usual caveats) as ever go to the referees and editor for their helpful and insightful comments.

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