Books:
Fiction
WRONG WAY, MCD 2023
Nonfiction
TOO EARLY FOR THE FUTURE: Reckoning with Tomorrow from the Present, MCD 2024
LURKING:
How a Person Became a User, MCD, 2020
(Excerpts ran in Harper's, LitHub, and OneZero).
Essays,
Stories, Journalism, Criticism:
(This list is ongoing as I continue to write and remember what I have
written in the past).
2023
A Museum for the Working Class, Dissent
Binge Watch: Silicon Valley Lifestyles on Screen, Filmmaker
2022
WPO,
Terraform (Fiction)
Americal Online, The Nation
Behind the Third Act, Filmmaker
Read Only Memory: On Chris Markers Immemory Project, Filmmaker magazine
Engineers, Artists, Both? On Bell Lab’s Pioneering Ken Knowlton, Filmmaker magazine
The Filter: What's Life Like for the Content Moderator?, The Nation
We Don’t Need Corporate Social Media, N/A
The Used
Future, U-Joints:
A taxonomy of connections (forthcoming)
Freedom as a Preset: Metaverses Past and Present, Filmmaker magazine
Crisis Text Line and the Silicon Valleyfication of Everything, Motherboard
2021
Silicon
Everywhere,
The Reboot
Telemarketing: On the Art
of Scam Calls, Dirty Furniture,
Telephone Issue
The
end of the Silicon Valley insider–critic, Nieman Lab
Uncanny
Alleys,
Technology Review
Catalog
essay, A
Section of Now; Canadian Centre
for Architecture
Twilight
of the Robots? Androids in Contemporary Cinema, Filmmaker magazine
Dial-up
Connections: All About Lily Chou-Chou at 20, Filmmaker magazine
Meet
Your Driver: Film, Gig Workers and Big Tech, Filmmaker magazine
The
Other Horror in Zombie Movies, Filmmaker magazine
In
Defence of Email, The Guardian
RIP
Yahoo Answers – your eccentricity will be missed, The Guardian
Patricia
Lockwood's Infinite Scroll, New York magazine
Isolation Mauve, Little Atlas of Colours
2020
Ballard
in the Rear View, Filmmaker magazine
Welcome to The Artists' Palette, Screensavers
VR/Float Land (Fiction)
Newsrooms
push back against Ivy League cronyism, Nieman Lab
To
Understand Facebook Today, Read Its Earliest Critics, OneZero
Conceiving
the Future: The Prescient Lynn Hershman Leeson, Filmmaker magazine
Quarantines
and Future Dreams, Filmmaker magazine
7
Books About Cyberspace by Women Writers, Electric
Literature
Digital
Wanderlust: On Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World,
Filmmaker
magazine
2019
The Newcomer,
Failed States (fiction)
Inside
Out Planets: NASA's Influence on Cinema's Visions of Outer
Space, Filmmaker
magazine
Glitches
in the Matrix: Adventures in the CGI Wilderness, Filmmaker
magazine
A
Return to Blogs, Nieman Lab
Space
Travel Will Get Banal - And Depressing, New York
magazine
When
2019 Was the Future, Filmmaker
magazine
All
the Work Without the Workers: Appreciating Sleep Dealer On Its Tenth
Anniversary, Filmmaker
magazine
The
Windshield and the Screen, Unthinking
Photography, The
Photographers' Gallery
2018
Users, Noon (fiction)
Big
Brother's Blind Spot, The Baffler
The
Community of Everybody and Nobody, I Was Raised on
the Internet,
MCA Chicago
Building
a digital hospice, Nieman Lab
Scenes
from the New York Tech Zine Fair, Medium
2017
After the Eclipse on
Paragon Hill, Eclipsecore
(Fiction)
Gatekeeping
the Gatekeepers, Nieman Lab
Catalog
essay,
You
May Also Like: Robert Stadler, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau Brühlsche
Terrasse
The
National Conversation: Clay Bavor, Amtrak's The
National
2016
Catalog
essay,
Olia Lialina's My Boyfriend Came Back From The War. Online
since 1996, House of Electronic Arts (HeK) Basel
Contributor
to the book,
Jon Rafman's Nine Eyes, Fillip/New Documents
Listening
to a Face,
Unthinking Photography, The Photographers' Gallery
Catalog
essay,
Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, SCHIRN Kunsthalle
Frankfurt.
Catalog
essay,
Albertine Meunier, My Google Search History, the book:
Volume 2
2015
Why
Do I Have to Call This App 'Julie'?, The New York
Times
Faking, The Piracy
Project Reader:
Borrowing, Poaching…., The Piracy
Project/AND Publishing
Catalog essay, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez at NOME Projects
Fear of
Zero Bars,
Haunted Machines
Human Networks, The Atlas of Contemporary Networks, IUAV Venice
Meet Half Cat, Cat is Art Spelled Wrong, Walker Art Center/Coffee House
Press
Postcards
from the Futch, The Message
Canned
Email,
The Message
Clothing
as SOS,
The Message
The
Apple Watch is a Watch, The Message
Ross
Ulbricht, the Silk Road trial, and the quasi-fictions of internet
culture,
The Message
2014
The influence of technology (on Mechanical Turk and digital labor), ICA (talk)
Facebook, edgerank, and users feeling like bots, Lift (talk)
Contributor to the book, Art and the Internet, Black Dog Publishing
The Dads of Tech
(co-written with Astra Taylor), The Baffler
Dronism (co-written with Ingrid Burrington), Dissent
The Patriotic Face, Saturated Space/The Architectural Association
School of Architecture in London.
Watching
Foam Rise,
Dirty Furniture
The Junk Ships on Alibaba, Piracy Papers/AND Publishing (2012 essay
republished)
The
Internet of Things Will Ruin Birthdays, The Message
(also
republished and expanded in SQM:
The Quantified Home, 2014)
Harassed
by Algorithms, The Message
The
Facebook Bully, The Message
Screenshots
as POV,
The Message
TTTT Exhibition catalog, Jerwood Space
Contributor to the book App Art, ZKM Center for Art and Media
Migraine aura
illustrations as online folk art, The Message
Tiny
Letters to the Web We Miss, The Message
2013
Prêt
à travailler: Workaholic Holograms, Domus
Look Inside,
Frieze
Manning
on Trial, Jacobin
A Real
Horrorshow,
Hysterical Literature
O<, Internet of
Dreams
Catalog essay, Maurice Carlin exhibition with Performance Publishing:
Regents Trading Estate
Mirror
with a Memory and a Blindspot, Medium
Selected 2012 & earlier
My Broken
iPhone,
Rhizome
In
lifelogging, you find your statistical (and egotistical?) self, LA
Times
Tacita Dean at the Turbine Hall, The Paris Review online
Lygia
Pape: Magnetized Space at the Serpentine Gallery, Modern Painters
On the intricacies of Hollywood archaeology, Wired UK
Endless Archive, Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the
Internet Age Spazio Contemporanea
Overfutured, Free exhibition at The New Museum
Death of a Dystopian: The life and legacy of J.G. Ballard, Reason
And earlier....well, I'm still tracking stuff down. Wayback Machine for variations of my website over the years has a lot of it.