Aesthetics and Cultural History

Aesthetics and Cultural History in the Sensual Encyclopedia explores this field through sensuality, embodiment, human experience, and practical meaning.

Decadence

Decadence names a late nineteenth-century aesthetic and moral controversy in which sensation, artifice, refinement, and excess became ways to test the limits of culture.

Modernism and the Senses

Modernism and the senses names the transformation of perception in twentieth-century art, literature, and design as technologies, cities, war, speed, and fragmentation altered how experience could be represented.

Do you prefer to listen?

If you prefer to listen, many of these themes are also explored through voice in the Sensual Institute podcast, where spoken reflections and audio transmissions offer another way to meet the material.

Reading engages the mind; listening allows the body to receive the same ideas through a different channel.

Both belong to the same body of work.

They simply meet you differently