Essays
Writing on art, fashion, and visual culture, ranging across history, philosophy, and the persistent strangeness of objects and images.
What the Museum Has Done to Looking: Art and the Loss of Vision
Where the Gods Are Now: They Don't Make Art Like They Used To?
Who Owns a Dot? or, Spirituality for the Highest Bidder, or, Can You Buy Aura?
Dying in Fancy Dress: The Psychology of Cosplay
The Worn Body: Porn, Sex, Dolls and the Natrificial
What the Academy Did to Making: The New Textuality for the Visual Arts
Ahead of the Battalion: Beginnings of the Avant-Garde
The Surfeit and the Wound: Pleasure, Beauty, and the Body
What the Market Did to the Avant-Garde: Innovation in Art and Its Institutions