ACADEMIC publications
Skepticism's Pictures: Figuring Descartes's Natural Philosophy (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023).
“Unsettling Beliefs,” Dis…Miss Gender?, ed. Anne Bray (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023).
"Cut, Copy, and English Anatomy: Thomas Geminus and the Reordering of Vesalius's Canonical Body," The Illustrated Body, ed. Massimo Ciaviolli and Rinaldo Canalis (Turnout: Brepols/UCLA Center for Renaissance and Medieval Studies, 2018)
"The Picture Multiple: Figuring, Knowing in Descartes's Essais (1637)," Journal of the History of Ideas 78:3 (2017), 369-299.
"The Wounded Ideal Goes Anatomical," Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, ed. Michael Sappol (New York: Blast Books, 2012): PAGE NUMBERS.
"Waiting to Exhale: John Hutchinson's Spirometer," threshholds 36 (Spring 2010).
"Recasting the Castor: From The Book of Beasts to Albertus Magnus's On Animals," thresholds 35 (Spring 2009).
Review of Catelijne Coopmans, Janet Vertesi, Michael Lynch and Steve Woolgar (eds.), Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2014. British Journal for the History of Science 48:4 (2015): 722-724.
Catalogue entries for Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge, ed. Susan Dackerman (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011)- "3. Jan Saenredam, Beached Whale near Beverwijk, 1602"; "96. Philip Galle after Pieter Bruegel I, The Alchemist, 1558"; "99. Cornelis Cort, The Five Senses, 1561."
cultural observation &
art criticism
“What I Was Doing When I Was Writing About Descartes,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 22 May 2023.
“Time after Time,” Carla, 28 February 2022.
“More than Not: LACMA’s Not I and the Necessity of History,” Carla, 7 September 2021. Republished in Momus, 7 October 2021.
"Arts of the Actionable Diagram," in Women's Center for Creative Work, A Feminist Organization's Handbook (2017), 26-36.
"Consequences of the Frame," California Review of Images of Mark Zuckerberg (Winter 2017).
LA Weekly: "Reading the Signs" || "We Can Dance if We Want To" || "The Ankylosaurian Tourist" || "Flip" || "Best Garden Anti-Gnomes" || "Best Dispatches from Captain's Quarters"
"Deep Sympathies" - an essay on the fantastic work of artist Christine Nguyen for an upcoming catalog.
Plus reviews for FlashArt International and Contemporary Magazine (now defunct); and listings for Flavorpill.
Marky.com (now archived): "This mermaid was more famous than Ariel... but not nearly as pretty" || "These artists threw legendary parties at Al's Grand Hotel" || "Come together right now over food" || "Face to face with the devil himself" || "The real stairway to heaven"
ETC.
More to come...