Seeing Differently

Acknowledgments

Seeing Differently feels like the book I have been writing all my life.

It seems like a lifetime ago I sat with Natalie Foster, my editor, at a vegetarian café in Manchester spieling out the premise of this book—wobbly yet grandiose in aim, my plan was inchoate but fired by a sense of imperative. I am deeply grateful to Natalie for standing behind this idea and patiently awaiting its exposition.

University of California, Riverside and University of Manchester provided early gestating points for the book. In 2009, my colleagues in Art History and Communication Studies offered me a fantastic job at McGill and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada, generously offered me extensive research support, which helped ...