Shakespeare's Counter-Optics
On October 4 2022, I'll be giving a lecture at the University of Zurich called "Shakespeare's Counter-Optics." Here's a a short abstract to give you a sense of what I'll be talking about. Vision and judgment have a vexed relationship. At once our most privileged and most mistrusted source of knowledge, the eyes have long been a site of both optimism and anxiety about the accessibility of spiritual, moral, legal, and scientific truth. In this talk, I reflect on how Shakespeare
