Look, Don't Touch (Paperback)
layla-roxanne hill
ISBN 10: 191663706X ISBN 13: 9781916637061
Published by 404 Ink, Edinburgh, 2025
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Paperback. What does the command look, dont touch suggest about the (lack of) freedom to feel in society?layla-roxanne hill and Francesca Sobande reflect on societys nurturing and obstructing of emotional expression, physical touch, and connectedness between different species and spaces.Through the music of feeling across genres from nu-metal to hip-hop, the spectacle of self-help social media content, and powerful pop culture portrayals of (im)mortality and monsters, Look, Dont Touch moves beyond the language of being okay. It embraces tenderness, dreaming, love, solidarity, messiness, release, and ultimately, feeling. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781916637061
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What does the command “look, don’t touch” suggest about the (lack of) freedom to feel in society? hill and Sobande reflect on society’s nurturing and obstructing of emotional expression, physical touch, and connectedness between different species and spaces as Look, Don’t Touch journeys through the music of feeling, “self-help” social media, the power of public signage, and more to call for a move away from the language of “okayness”, and a move towards collectively uplifting forms of anger, agitation, love, solidarity, release, and ultimately, feeling.
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Title: Look, Don't Touch (Paperback)
Publisher: 404 Ink, Edinburgh
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new