I’m a historian, archivist, and curator of American science, technology, and media.
My research project “ The Revolution Will Be Videotaped ” explores how artists, psychotherapists, political organizers, and “video freaks” used videotape recording—and discourses of feedback and panpsychism which accompanied it—to experiment with mind and society in the 1960s and 1970s. I have published on theories of self-observation , video synthesizers , electronic photography , and Catholicism in video art .
In the history of biology and the human sciences, I have written about white supremacy and its opponents in physical anthropology , theistic evolutionism , and the quantification of sex . I maintain a bibliography of the history of cybernetics .