Dierdra Reber's argument is fierce. With near breathless but nonetheless sure-footed speed, she cuts a course through an impressive range of hemispheric popular culture to show how capitalism has, from the beginning, generated its own self-serving counterdiscourse.
Nancy Armstrong, Duke University Coming to Our Senses is a sophisticated work of scholarship concerned with advocating for the enormous potential of the category of 'affect' in understanding contemporary global culture. It is a definite must-have book for scholars in an array of disciplines.
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, Washington University in Saint Louis This daring, thought-provoking, challenging book will no doubt be controversial, as innovative projects inevitably are, but it will be widely discussed and debated across fields and disciplines and it will be broadly influential.
Priscilla Wald, Duke University Coming to our Senses is an impressive book about nothing more and nothing less than a seismic change in the episteme in Western civilization. It will have a huge impact throughout the humanities, forcing us to rethink long-held assumptions about the way culture works and making us revise the paradigms within which we live.
Edmundo Paz-Soldan, Cornell University Coming to Our Senses is an exhilarating work, one whose erudition, verve, and span of cultural references and evidence make for fantastic reading. Reber is a rare example of a scholar who has the depth of knowledge and the creativity of perspective to apprehend cultural processes on a scale that handles interregional comparison with care and insight. In this and many other senses, Coming to Our Senses is a model of cutting-edge humanistic scholarship.
Joshua Lund, University of Notre Dame