Reported features
Meet Me In The Metaverse - New Humanist, 2022
Tell Me, Do You Intend To Fuck It? - an essay on desire, materiality and the iPhone, for Dirty Furniture, 2021
Ashes to Ashes - on dust, for print magazine Smith Journal, 2019
Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture - Medium, 2018
Travel writing
The Ghost Grid of California City - Medium, 2016
Atomic California - Roads & Kingdoms, 2015
Opinion & shorter essays
Airbnb hasn’t lived up to its utopian claims - Guardian Opinion, 2020
The tech giants dominated the decade. But there’s still time to rein them in - Guardian Opinion, 2019
Reviews
As Above, So Below: a review of Fred Sharmen's 'Space Forces' - Ancillary Review, 2022
Minimal Effort: a review of Kyle Chayka's 'The Longing for Less' - Apollo, 2020
Exploring the Future Beyond Cyberpunk - How We Get To Next, 2018
Profiled
Culture diary for Rahel Aima's Nightlife #23, 2021
Interview in Issue N°3 – Permanence, The Alpine Review, with Igor Schwarzmann, 2016
Ethnographer's Reading List - Ethnomatters 2012
Opinions
Meet Me In The Metaverse - New Humanist, 2022
Tell Me, Do You Intend To Fuck It? - an essay on desire, materiality and the iPhone, for Dirty Furniture, 2021
Ashes to Ashes - on dust, for print magazine Smith Journal, 2019
Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture - Medium, 2018
- Reactions & discussion at Metafilter; Design Observer podcast Episode 80: Age and Authenticity; Slate Money podcast 205 on brands, Airspace and authenticity; post of the month at Neil Perkin's adland blog.
- Chapter in the book Post-Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, eds. Alfie Bown & Dan Bristow, Punctum Books, 2019
- Republished in Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association
Travel writing
The Ghost Grid of California City - Medium, 2016
Atomic California - Roads & Kingdoms, 2015
Opinion & shorter essays
Airbnb hasn’t lived up to its utopian claims - Guardian Opinion, 2020
The tech giants dominated the decade. But there’s still time to rein them in - Guardian Opinion, 2019
- Discussion on KGO 810 radio (San Francisco)
Reviews
As Above, So Below: a review of Fred Sharmen's 'Space Forces' - Ancillary Review, 2022
Minimal Effort: a review of Kyle Chayka's 'The Longing for Less' - Apollo, 2020
Exploring the Future Beyond Cyberpunk - How We Get To Next, 2018
- Republished at Quartz, Nine Sci Fi Subgenres to Help You Understand the Future, and The Big Smoke, Woke space opera, solarpunk and cli-fi: The new subsets of sci-fi taking root
- Translated into Spanish for BBVA Open Mind, Una nueva ciencia ficción para entender lo que viene
Profiled
Culture diary for Rahel Aima's Nightlife #23, 2021
Interview in Issue N°3 – Permanence, The Alpine Review, with Igor Schwarzmann, 2016
Ethnographer's Reading List - Ethnomatters 2012
Opinions
- On the utopian possibilities of K-Pop fandom, for Pew Research - Visions of the Internet in 2035, also Fast Company
- On a royal Instagram rivalry, in the New York Times - A Royal Instagram Mystery, Caity Weaver,
- On political shitposting, in the New Statesman - “They’re doing this badly on purpose”: Why the Tories’ latest online ads look so ugly, Chris Stokel-Walker
- How media spreads, in WIRED - How a petition to revoke Article 50 blew up and broke the internet, Chris Stokel-Walker
- Hopes & fears, in VICE Motherboard - We Asked 105 Experts What Worries Them Most About the Future, Becky Ferreira
- On deepfake videos, in VICE Motherboard - We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now, by Samantha Cole
- On bitcoin as a status symbol, in VICE Garage - Bitcoin Is the New Birkin Bag, by Kyle Chayka
- On CV Dazzle, in The Atlantic - Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face, by Robinson Meyer
- On Google Glass, in WIRED - Fashion Insiders Weigh In: Can Your Style Survive Google Glass? by Tim Maly