New Tools for Organizing the Sensorium

Man's sensory perceptions are abundant and overwhelming. He cannot attend to them all at once...It is useful to think of cultures in terms of the organization of the sensorium...the entire sensory apparatus as an operational complex.

Walter Ong, Presence of the Word (1967).

Edited by Tyler Chevéz Mathews, who frames the volume with Walter Ong’s idea of the sensorium. Contributions from Andrew McLuhan, Petra Cortright, Andy Hartzell, Luke Rollins, Paul Guzzardo, and Jon Phillips mix essay, poetry, testimony, and field notes. Generative cover by Makio135. Published Nov 18, 2022.

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Introduction

Tyler Chevéz Mathews — Introduction

> Growing up, assimilating the wisdom of the past, is in great part learning how to organize the sensorium productively for intellectual purposes. Man’s sensory perceptions are abundant and…

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