The Suspicious Smell of Witchcraft

This post is part of the Monster Carnival 2022: Why Early Modern History Matters Now. Jordan Grahamgraduated from Cardiff University with a BA in History in the summer of 2022. Jordan Graham Over the last few years it is likely that you or someone you know has had Covid-19. One of the common side of effects has been loss of taste or smell, so much so that often when someone tells you they had Covid it may be one of the questions you ask. Could you smell anything? Could you taste anything? Whi...

Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Fernando Ayala’s The Bitter Stems (Los tallos amargos, 1956)

By Jeremy Carr. The imagery of Los tallos amargos is not only its most strikingly noirish attribute, but it’s among the more dazzling of any film, of any genre." A cursory survey of film history would seem to suggest that Hollywood had cornered the market on the best of what classic genres had to offer. Dig deeper, however, and this was hardly the case. Surely, the most iconic genre features were generated by American studios, but other nations also contributed to the rich diver...

Personhood in Classical Indian Philosophy - RSS

[New Entry by Monima Chadha on January 3, 2022.] Selves and persons are often used as synonyms in contemporary philosophy, and sometimes also in the history of Western philosophy. This is almost never the case in classical Indian philosophical traditions. The Sanskrit term 'ātman' properly translated as self stands for whatever it is that is the essence of individual humans (manuṣya) or the psychophysical complex (pudgala) which includes the mind, body and sense organs. There is di...

Act of Smelling- The - Camphor and Petrichor

p. 49Source: And on p. 34 , the essay on Petrichor, or "blood-stone"

Knowledge as Taste - and sentience as experiences

Art and Olfaction

Smellosophy - olfaction and philosophy

Westerns - Olfaction - and more Clips from The Philosophers Magazine Issue 93

Art of Perfumery - The

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Art of Perfumery, by G. W. Septimus Piesse This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants Author: G. W. Septimus Piesse Release Date: July 28, 2005 [EBook #16378] Language: E...