Adam Mack
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Adam Mack joined School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Liberal Arts Department in 2007. He is the author of ”Sensing Chicago: Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers”, the first multisensory history of the Windy City. His initial work in sensory history dealt with American supermarkets and the sensory landscape of the post-World War II suburbs. His articles on the senses and suburban consumer culture include ”Speaking of Tomatoes: Supermarkets, the Senses, and Sexual Fantasy in Modern America” in the ”Journal of Social History”, ”The Politics of Good Taste: Whole Foods Markets and Sensory Design” in ”The Senses & Society” and ”The Senses in the Marketplace: Commercial Aesthetics for a Suburban Age” in ”A Cultural History of the Senses in the Modern Age” edited by David Howes.
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