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Essays & reporting

I don't just write about dust - but also digital culture, technology and futures.

Reported features and essays

Critically Endangered. ‘We ask a lot of some very small fish. Single species are relied on to save entire ecosystems.’ London Review of Books blog, 2025

Hell's Kitchen. ‘Imperial Valley cannot be a sacrifice zone for the clean energy revolution.’ On lithium development at the Salton Sea, California. London Review of Books blog, 2024 

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Intelligence is Everywhere. ‘A new kind of nature writing sees new technologies as one more branch of the teeming tree of life.’ Cover feature for New Humanist, 2022

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Meet Me In The Metaverse. ‘As our lives become ever more digital, how do we untangle “real” experiences from virtual ones – and should we?’ New Humanist, 2022

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Tell Me, Do You Intend To Fuck It? An essay on desire, materiality and the iPhone. Dirty Furniture, 2021

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Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture - Medium, 2018

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My Friend, The Bot. Medium, 2016

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Is Fashion Ready for a New Aesthetic? Business of Fashion, 2012

Travel writing

The Ghost Grid of California City - Medium, 2016


Atomic California - Roads & Kingdoms, 2015

Opinion

Airbnb hasn’t lived up to its utopian claims - Guardian, 2020


The tech giants dominated the decade. But there’s still time to rein them in - Guardian, 2019

  • Discussion on KGO 810 radio (San Francisco) 
     

Ashes to Ashes - Smith Journal, 2019


Your mobile phone leaks - ICON magazine, 2012

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