Neues Buch unter der Mitherausgeberschaft von PD Dr. Eva Wattolik erschienen

New book on “Food – Media – Senses. Interdisciplinary Approaches”

Food is more than just nutrition. Its preparation, presentation and consumption is a multifold communicative practice which includes the meal’s design and its whole field of experience. How is food represented in the visual arts, cookbooks or product packaging? How is dining semantically charged? How is the sensuality of eating treated in different cultural contexts? In order to acknowledge the material and media-related aspects of eating as a cultural praxis, experts from media studies, art history, literary studies, philosophy, experimental psychology, anthropology, food studies, cultural studies and design studies share their specific approaches.

The editors Christina Bartz (Paderborn), Jens Ruchatz (Marburg) and Eva Wattolik (Erlangen) are scholars in media studies and art history and both disciplines are interested in questions of perception and sensuality. Focusing on the senses in combination with the concept of media is their proposal for re-drafting the relation of food and the senses in the humanities and social sciences. This perspective is initially oriented less towards media as mediators. But it is more a matter of the modeling of perceptual acts with respect to the preparation and consumption of foodstuffs.

The e-book edition is published in open access as part of the “Open Library Media Studies 2023”. The title was selected and awarded by the advisory board. The Open Access provision is funded by the “Open Library Community Media Studies 2023”.

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