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My book New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future was published by Verso in
June 2018. More information on the book's page.

I write regularly on my own blog, booktwo.org, and my writing frequently appears in other
publications, in print and online.

From March 2012 until August 2015, I wrote a regular column about electronic reading in
the Observer newspaper. My contributions can be found here.

On Information:

– Life Rewired: on artificial and environmental intelligence, Barbican / British Council,

March 2019
– Rise of the Machines, Guardian, June 2018
– Known Unknowns, Harpers, June 2018
– Whistleblowers are a terrible answer to the problems of big tech, Wired, June 2018
– Something is wrong on the internet, November 2017
– What's wrong with big data?, New Humanist, Autumn 2016
– Big Data, No Thanks, Booktwo.org, November 2015

On Data, Citizenship, and Governance:

– Citizenship can never protect our rights, The Guardian, March 2019
– State to Stateless Machines: A Trajectory, February 2019
– How can we break the Brexit deadlock? Ask ancient Athens, The Guardian, December
2018
– The Right to Understand, in Human rights for the 21st century, The Guardian, December
2018
– The Rise of Virtual Citizenship, The Atlantic, February 2018
– Algorithmic Citizenship, Digital Statelessness, GeoHumanities, November 2016
– Living on the Electromagnetic Border, Creative Time Reports, November 2014
– Welcome to life in no man’s land: The growing perils of the electromagnetic border
zone, Salon, November 2014
– The Siege on Citizenship, Walker Art Centre, July 2014

On the environment

– Air pollution, climate change, and intelligence, The Guardian October 2018

On my own work:

– Failing to distinguish between a tractor trailer and the bright white sky, October 2017
– Machine Learning in Practice, April 2017
– Cloud Thinking, September 2016
– Why I Write, Frieze Magazine, July 2016
– Re-Orient, Witte De With Review, April 2016
– What they don’t want you to see: the hidden world of UK deportation, The Guardian,
January 2015
– Democratic invisibility: drones & war, Virgin Unite, September 2014
– The New Aesthetic and its Politics, essay in You Are Here: Art after the Internet (book),
Cornerhouse, Manchester, April 2014
– In search of the Render Ghosts, essay, Electronic Voice Phenomena
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– The New Aesthetic: Past, Present, Future, Form Magazine, January 2013

On Sport:

– At Play on the Field of Ghosts, How We Get To Next, August 2016

– Sneakers and Snoopers, Het Nieuwe Instituut, April 2016
– Spectacular Sports Visualisations, Commentary Project, National Football Museum,
June 2014
– Test Match Special and Technological Agency, Booktwo.org, July 2013

On Surveillance:

– Ring of Steel: The surveillance state's heart of darkness, Matter, September 2013
– "The Sound of the Drone", Dread: The Dizziness of Freedom, Book, NL, September 2013
(Image)

Catalogue Essays:

– In Search of an Exit, Catalogue Essay, for Zoe Hatziyannaki, The Past of Things to Come
at A-Dash Project Space, Athens, April 2018
– On the Virtual, NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, December 2017
– Factitious Airs, Catalogue Essay, for Works For Air, Hanover Project, October 2016
– The Players at the Table, Catalogue Essay, Shawn Smith at Now Contemporary Art,
February 2016
– Armies Will Vanish, White Review, June 2015
– Apophenia, Catalogue Essay, for Constant Dullaart, Constant Dullaart: Stringendo,
Vanishing Mediators, Carroll/Fletcher, June 2014
– Disposition Time, Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards exhibition, January 2013

Criticism and Reviews:

– The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff review – we are the pawns, The
Guardian, February 2019
– Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles by David
Sumpter – review, The Guardian, August 2018
– Sons of Hypnos, Witte De With Review, August 2016
– Making Sense: How the crisis in Greece is prompting young Athens-based artists to find
new spaces for communal reflection, Frieze Magazine, June 2016
– Between Worlds: Labyrinthine associations and elastic meaning in the work of Heather
Phillipson, Frieze Magazine, December 2015
– Picture Piece: Video Game Photography, Frieze Magazine, September 2015
– Why Digital Art Matters, The Guardian, June 2014
– "Instant: The History of Polaroid", Eye Magazine, June 2013
– Edgware Road substation, ICON magazine, April 2013
– The Elephant Parade, Review, Icon magazine, 086, July 2010

On Architecture:

– Icon of the Month: The Cloud, ICON Magazine, February 2015

– On Architectural Visualisation, Domus Magazine, February 2013
– Trap Streets, Cabinet Magazine, Winter 2012
– The Architecture of Datacenters, ICON Magazine #99, August 2011

Fiction:

– Annapolis, Attica, for Athens Sci-Fi, May 2017

– The End of Big Data, Terraform / Motherboard / VICE, January 2016

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– Render Ghosts Revolt, TAR magazine, September 2012

Other Journalism:

– Longplayer: the app that lets you listen to a 1,000-year-long song, The Guardian, June
2015
– The algorithm method: how internet dating became everyone's route to a perfect love
match, Observer, January 2014
– Ifa Muaza: Anatomy of a failed rendition, New Statesman, December 2013
– "Landsat", Aperture Magazine, Winter 2013 (Image)
(Image)
– Future Fictions, Frieze Magazine, June 2013
– Photography and the New Aesthetic, British Journal of Photography, September 2012
– From Books to Infrastructure: on Amazon, Kindle and more, DOMUS July 2012.
– The history and future of GPS, ICON July 2012
– On the ubiquity of cameraphones, for ICON Magazine #106: Mobile Phones, April 2012
– On Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary, The Atlantic (part of the All-Star Thinkers series)

On Books and Publishing:

– Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015, (Essay contribution to book), N+1, August
2016
– You Are Here, essay in Where You Are (book), Visual Editions, London, November 2013
– Digital Public Spaces, Future Everything, April 2013
– Literatuur als spel, (Literature as a game), De Gids (Dutch), April 2013
– The problem with publishing, WIRED Magazine May 2012
– Books are encoded Experiences, essay in the collection I Read Where I Am, Graphic
Design Museum/Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2011
– On Book Covers, The Bookseller Frankfurt Edition, October 2010
– A brave new future, [PDF], Literature Professional, May 2010
– What Publishers Today Can Learn from Allen Lane: Fearlessness, Publishing
Perspectives, April 2010
– Faster, Higher, Stronger: George Perec’s W, and the tyranny of the Olympic Ideal, The
Idler, April 2008
– Come one, come all: London Lit Plus, Guardian, June 2007

In Books and Journals:

– Introduction to The White Paper, Ignota Books, 2019

– The New Aesthetic and its Politics, essay in You Are Here: Art after the Internet ,
Cornerhouse, Manchester, April 2014
– Various texts in WdW Review: Arts, Culture, and Journalism in Revolt, Vol. 1 [2013–2016] ,
Witte de With, June 2017
– Algorithmic Citizenship, Digital Statelessness, GeoHumanities, November 2016
– Network Tense: How to Approach a Contemporary, Technologically-Mediated World,
Journal of Electronic Publishing, February 2014.

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