Technology
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)
Your mobile phone leaks - ICON magazine
How we live online
Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture - Medium feature story
- 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
My Friend, The Bot - Medium
- Republished in Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association
Futures
Exploring the Future Beyond Cyberpunk - How We Get To Next
- 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
- and BBVA Open Mind, Una nueva ciencia ficción para entender lo que viene
Design
Phone Sex -- an essay on desire, materiality and the iPhone, upcoming for Dirty Furniture magazine
Review of Keller Easterling’s ‘Extrastatecraft' - ICON magazine
Is Fashion Ready for a New Aesthetic? - Business of Fashion
Place writing
Atomic California - Roads & Kingdoms
The Ghost Grid of California City - Medium feature story
Dust
Started Disturbances, an email newsletter on dust - Tinyletter
- Disturbances profiled in WIRED: The Blissfully Slow World of Internet Newsletters, by Clive Thompson
The Price of Perfection - Medium feature story, republishing Disturbances dust essay #17
Profiles
Interview in Issue N°3 – Permanence, The Alpine Review, with Igor Schwarzmann
Ethnographer's Reading List - Ethnomatters
Other opinions
- On a royal Instagram rivalry, in the New York Times - A Royal Instagram Mystery, Caity Weaver,
- On media literacy (and the lack thereof), in The i - The Rishi Sunak Yorkshire tea debacle exposes abuse - and that no one understands sponsored content, Chris Stokel-Walker
- 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
- On the future of advertising, in the Guardian - From WhatsApp to Alexa : why the ad-free era is over, 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