Books & Essays
A body of work spanning five decades, from illustrated travel accounts of the Enlightenment to the neuroscience of visual attention.
Books
Examines Humbert de Superville's essay on absolute signs in art and semiotics — an early study in the theory of visual meaning.
Analyzes illustrated travel accounts from 1760–1840, tracing the interplay between art, science, and the natural world.
Investigates Enlightenment imaging techniques for visualizing the unseen interior of the human body — at the intersection of art and medicine.
Explores Enlightenment entertainment and the decline of visual education — how scientific spectacle shaped popular culture.
Essays examining the ethical and aesthetic value of images — a defense of visual intelligence in an era of textual bias.
Addresses consciousness as an art form — examining how visual connections and analogies constitute a form of thought.
Co-authored catalog for the Getty exhibition tracing wonder-inducing objects and optical technologies from early modern boxes to contemporary screens.
An inquiry into the cognitive work of images — how pictures function as instruments of understanding, memory, and embodied knowledge.
Bridges the humanities and neuroscience, charting shared intellectual terrain and proposing new frameworks for interdisciplinary research.
Essays & Chapters
An inquiry into the spatial and sensory possibilities of museum architecture — asking what buildings can prompt, provoke, and transform in those who move through them.
Explores the intersection of space syntax methodology and emerging theories of biourbanism in contemporary museum and urban design.
Explores how visual attention integrates mind, body, and the nonhuman world through the phenomenology of observing jewels.
Examines the public responses to the Body Worlds exhibitions and the ethics of displaying human remains as spectacle.