I write about place, media and technology.

2018
Exploring the Future Beyond Cyberpunk - How We Get To Next

• Republished at Quartz, Nine Sci Fi Subgenres to Help You Understand the Future, and BBVA Open Mind, Una nueva ciencia ficción para entender lo que viene
  
  

The Price of Perfection - Medium feature story
(Republishing Disturbances dust essay #17)

Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture - Medium feature story

• Reactions & discussion at Metafilter; Design Observer podcast Episode 80: Age and Authenticity; post of the month at Neil Perkin's adland blog.
• Forthcoming chapter in Post-Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production (Punctum Books, 2019)

2016
My Friend, The Bot - Medium

• Republished in Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association
  
  

Started Disturbances, an email newsletter on dust - Tinyletter

• Disturbances profiled in WIRED: The Blissfully Slow World of Internet Newsletters, by Clive Thompson

2015
Atomic California - Roads & Kingdoms
The Ghost Grid of California City - Medium Feature story
Review of Keller Easterling’s ‘Extrastatecraft' - ICON magazine
Interview in Issue N°3 – Permanence, The Alpine Review, with Igor Schwarzmann


2012
Ethnographer's Reading List - Ethnomatters
Is Fashion Ready for a New Aesthetic? - Business of Fashion
Your mobile phone leaks - ICON magazine


Other opinions:

• On deepfake videos, in VICE Motherboard - We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now, Daisy Ridley, 2018
• On bitcoin as a status symbol, in VICE Garage - Bitcoin Is the New Birkin Bag, Kyle Chayka, 2018
• On CV Dazzle, in The Atlantic - Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face, Robinson Meyer, 2014
• On Google Glass, in WIRED - Fashion Insiders Weigh In: Can Your Style Survive Google Glass? Tim Maly, 2013