Look, Don't Touch : Reflections on the Freedom to Feel

Francesca Sobande

ISBN 10: 191663706X / ISBN 13: 9781916637061

Published by 404 Ink Feb 2025, 2025

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Neuware - What does the command 'look, don't touch' suggest about the (lack of) freedom to feel in society layla-roxanne hill and Francesca Sobande reflect on society's 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, Don't Touch moves beyond the language of 'being okay'. It embraces tenderness, dreaming, love, solidarity, messiness, release, and ultimately, feeling.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Look, Don't Touch : Reflections on the Freedom to Feel
• Publisher: 404 Ink Feb 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191663706X
• ISBN 13: 9781916637061
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 174W x 122H x 17D millimeters 174 millimeters width by 122 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 101 grams

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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.