Other writing
I don't just write about dust - but also digital culture, technology and futures.
Reported features and essays
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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Reactions & discussion at Metafilter; Design Observer podcast Episode 80: Age and Authenticity; Slate Money podcast 205 on brands, Airspace and authenticity; Neil Perkin's post of the month.
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Chapter in the book Post-Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, eds. Alfie Bown & Dan Bristow, Punctum Books, 2019
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My Friend, The Bot. Medium, 2016
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Republished in Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association
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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
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Discussion on KGO 810 radio (San Francisco)
Ashes to Ashes - Smith Journal, 2019
Your mobile phone leaks - ICON magazine, 2012
Reviews
As Above, So Below: a review of Fred Scharmen'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
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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
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Translated into Spanish for BBVA Open Mind, Una nueva ciencia ficción para entender lo que viene
Review of Keller Easterling’s ‘Extrastatecraft' - ICON magazine, 2015