Mirror-touch synaesthesia : thresholds of empathy with art / edited by Daria Martin.

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

xx, 380 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm

First edition.

"Mirror-Touch Synesthesia, in bringing together leading neuroscientists, artists, philososhers, and experiencing synaesthetes, is of equal importance to the fields science and humanities, shedding new light on in-feeling (empathy) and its vital relevance to contemporary life and culture"-- backcover.

Feeling in. In conversation / Vittorio Gallese and Carolee Schneemann ; The vicarious perception of touch and pain : embodied empathy / Jamie Ward ; Orchestration of the senses in yellow : Eisenstein's fourth dimension, memory, and mirror-touch synaesthesia / Patricia Pisters ; Ocular objecthood in India and beyond / Christopher Pinney ; Surface encounters : materiality and empathy / Giuliana Bruno -- Expanded embodiment. In conversation / Michael Banissy and Elinor Cleghorn ; Becoming others / Siri Hustvedt ; I feel like an abstract line / Laura U. Marks ; Synergy and synaesthesia / Anthony Chemero ; The art of the relational body : from mirror-touch to the virtual body / Brian Massumi -- Intimate otherness. In conversation / Thomas J. Csordas and Trisha Donnelly ; Four or five jaws / Fiona Torrance ; Trance notebook #2 [nerdy questions about exact pitch] / Wayne Koestenbaum ; Prp4AShw / Mark Leckey -- Double sensation. In conversation / Catherine Wood and Sha Xin Wei ; Fieldwork's double : when images and people meet at the margins / Massimiliano Mollona ; Empathy's ghosts / Daria Martin ; Double consciousness/double shooting / Rabih Mroué ; In conversation / Judith Hopf and Joel Salinas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.