A dawning realisation settles as I finish reading Vincent Latronico’s Perfection (2025). The novel’s symbiotic protagonists are an emblem of our futile attempts to use our cultivated taste as an exten...

10:20am, and I have already picked up my phone 16 times. I have been awake four hours and have used my phone for an hour and a half. These numbers will only go up as the day progresses. The smartpho...

⚠️ This review is about a book that discusses self-harm and suicide. We have passed the point at which our digital worlds can be contained in a beige desktop PC. Our online selves are no longer acce...

London is a city of forgotten streams and lost rivers; of sedimented layers encasing ancient waterways that have long since been diverted underground; of stopped wells and springs that have fallen out...

Technology is manufactured — chemically intensive and extractive processes are deployed to transform raw materials into sophisticated digital devices. Technology demands control — complex infrastructu...

There is a strange glaze mediating your perception of the synthetic images in your feed. At first glance, you sense the altered luminescence before concluding it’s a visual shift that does not need co...

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If you are steeped in internet culture, this is a word that you might have encountered sometime in the last three years. This is a word that represents the motives and actions of an industry dominated...

Why do we do research? This might seem like an insultingly simple question, yet perhaps we have never paused to reflect before considering our honest answer. In the quest for a new job or promotion, w...

Research for People Who Think They Would Rather Create is a slender manual written by Dirk Vis — a Dutch lecturer at Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague — who...

In 1899, Mark Twain published the short story The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg. Written towards the end of his two-year residency in Austria, this potent satire punctures the moral pomposity of ninete...

The AI Con, as its name misleadingly suggests, is not solely about AI; rather, it is an assiduous exercise in excoriating the runaway hype engulfing the technology industry. Co-written by computatio...

Essays from a critical technologist, told through the interpretative lens of Black Studies and conceptual art.

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Essays from a critical technologist, told through the interpretative lens of Black Studies and conceptual art.

What I've said and read since summer

Literature shaping my practice which are constant sources of influence, inspiration, and ideas.

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