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Avantgarde and Psychotechnics. On the Convergence of Science, Art and Technology in the Russian 1920s.
In post-revolutionary Russia, life has become an experiment. The Russian Avantgarde took the new communist society as a quasi-artistic attempt and fol
Publications, Essay on Virtual Laboratory Project, Funding Institutions, Volkswagenstiftung
Weight Watchers im 17. Jahrhundert: Echt oder Fake?
MehrA Silent Revolution: Infrastructuring Singapore as a Logistics City (1850s–1930s)
Port facilities, stockyards, loading docks, railroad tracks, power grids—functional infrastructures form basic units of both modern cities and logisti
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Artifice Embodied: Perfecting Renaissance Nature and the Invention of Race
In the sixteenth century, Europeans set out to control nature by “taking charge of race,” in the words of heretic philosopher Tommaso Campanella. The
Porta Cooley
Animal Lounges: Launching Nature into the History of Airports
Animals disturb airports in multiple ways while also being an integral part of their modus operandi. Airports create their own ecosystems that are emb
Rewriting the World in Southwest India
This project traces the emergence of a new way of writing natural history in Kannada in the late eleventh century and the contemporaneous production o
Kant on the Unity of Self-Consciousness in the Unity of Perception; Kant’s Theory of Moral Agency
I will be working on two projects which are not so much related to each other as to my previous work. In Kant’s Thinker, I offered a reading of Kant’s
A New History of Medieval Science: Knowledge and Its Objects in Latin Europe and the Islamicate World, 750–1650
The goal of this project is to continue work on a book on the history of medieval Arabic and Latin science, co-authored with Ahmed Ragab of the Depart
The Dark Glass: Alchemy in Image, Text, and Practice
This project investigates how early modern alchemists used images to explain unseen processes. Dynamic chemical processes, involving change at a level
Context and Error in the Epistemology of Scientific Experiment
Within traditional epistemology, skeptical scenarios challenge the idea that knowledge can be gained. These scenarios demand a level of justification—