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2020
- doi: 10.7202/1075567ar
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Simmel Studies ; vol. 24 no. 2 (2020)
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Olga Sabido Ramos, « The Metropolis and Nose Life. Sensory Memories, Odors and Emotions », Simmel Studies, ID : 10.7202/1075567ar
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Following Simmel's legacy, the present paper shows how ‘sensory memories’ and emotions are related to the meanings attributed to the smells of human and non-human entities in the metropolis. Based on the findings of a larger research project on urban youth in Mexico City, the article emphasizes how even though the smell is one of the most undervalued senses; it has a significant presence, not only unpleasant but also pleasant memories. In other words, these findings show how ‘sensory memory’ permits a ‘somatic work’ (Vannini et al. 2012) on the sensations and emotions that have persisted in our sensitive bodies, in which smell is not necessarily a “dissociating sense” as Simmel believed, even in the metropolis.