Preface: the bottom of the garden
Introduction: on being struck: hitting the eye/arousing the mind
Inscrutability. "Black and glittering": the inscrutable sublime ; Lying side by side: fitting color to eros ; The ultimate conjuncture: what shadows the brain-mind merger? ; Reconceiving the Warburg Library as a working museum of the mind
Ineffability. From communicable matter to incommunicable "stuff": extreme combinatorics and the return of ineffability ; Impossible to name: performing the ineffable ; "Totally visual?": op art's neural iconography and the engineered picture ; Dark wonder: belowness, or the ineffable underground ; Still deeper: the non-conscious sublime or the art and science of submergence
Intuitability. Strange shadows/marred screens ; Thought gems: inferencing from the impersonal crystalline ; The jewel game: gems, fascination, and the neuroscience of visual attention ; From observant eye to non-attentive "I": the camera as cognitive device ; Seizing attention: devices and desires.