by Talking Humanities | May 8, 2018 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement, Republished
Professor Richard Marggraf Turley explains how ‘self-tracking’ inspired him to develop ‘The Vortex’ – a machine that analyses our reactions to sublime and Gothic works. ‘I’ve got chills, they’re multiplying,’ sang John Travolta, dancing off with Olivia Newton John at...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 22, 2015 | Being Human festival, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Republished
Do gothic novels really stir the pulse, as their Romantic authors claimed? Aberystwyth University Romanticist Professor Richard Marggraf Turley, discusses the ‘Quantified Self’ movement and how he plans to use art and biometric analysis to count the chills and measure...
