I have written two books: Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence (Penguin/FSG, 2022) and New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future (Verso, 2018)
I write 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, Technology and Media:
- Amazon, AI, Money, and War, Guardian, March 2024
- The Stupidity of AI, Guardian, March 2023
- The Conspiracy of the Algorithm, Jacobin, March 2023
- Is Creativity Over?, WePresent, February 2023
- The Great Distractor: on Sesame Street, Teletubbies, and YouTube, The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, November 2020
- 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
- If we can farm metal from plants, what else can we learn from life on Earth?, The Guardian, April 2022
- Phenological Mismatch, E-Flux Journal, June 2019
- 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
- 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 (Archived at Booktwo.org)
- 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 and Images:
- Through Non-Human Eyes, Unthinking Photography, November 2016
- 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
- (link:https://www.iconeye.com/architecture/features/item/10477-distribution-warehouses text:No Man's Land: Datacenters, Distribution Centres, Algorithms and Labour Relations, Icon Magazine 124, September 2013
- On Architectural Visualisation, Domus Magazine, February 2013
- Trap Streets, Cabinet Magazine, Winter 2012
- The Architecture of Datacenters, ICON Magazine #99, August 2011
Fiction:
- Rebooting the Server Farm, March 2022
- Annapolis, Attica, for Athens Sci-Fi, May 2017
- The End of Big Data, Terraform / Motherboard / VICE, January 2016
- Render Ghosts Revolt, TAR magazine, September 2012
- The Author of Everything, Booktwo, March 2011
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.