Andrea Gadberry Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, New York University Andrea Gadberry is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. Her first book, Cartesian Poetics: The Art of Thinking, from the University of Chicago Press, appeared in 2020. She is currently at work on two new book projects: one on early modern rationalism and literary causality and a second, tentatively entitled, Notes on Clapping. Participant In: Touch as the Ur-Sense: From Presence to Poesy March 9th, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » “Now the touch only is common to all animals.” Agrippa The very notion of sentience, with its root in feeling, cannot be understood without some reference to sensation. And sensation itself has at its bare core a “something” we feel. The response to that feeling is the mark of life: “quickening” upon touch is how we distinguish the… read more »
Touch as the Ur-Sense: From Presence to Poesy March 9th, 2024 at 2:30PM Past Event Watch the video » “Now the touch only is common to all animals.” Agrippa The very notion of sentience, with its root in feeling, cannot be understood without some reference to sensation. And sensation itself has at its bare core a “something” we feel. The response to that feeling is the mark of life: “quickening” upon touch is how we distinguish the… read more »