Long Reads
Synthespian Escalation
2020: The VTuber Breakout
Due to converging trends in technology & software, 2020 was a breakout year for the VTuber.
What can we learn about from them about the future of entertainment?
Craving Canon
Cultural Fracking, Fandom, Narrative, and Other Problems With Story Worlds in 2020
The need for ‘Canon’ in stories arises from lack of agency fans have over their story worlds.
THIS IS IT
When UK’s First Lockdown started I started writing about all the things that are important to me.
How I was thinking and feeling about the world. Some of what I wrote between March and May ended up here.
Tales Of The Next Internet
Deep Time, Somatic Software And The Coming Enmeshment
Transcript Sonar+D 2019:
Talk, Video & Transcript of my Tales of the Next Internet talk @ Sonar+D Barcelona 2019
Solarpunk
A Grand Dress Rehersal
Transcript Terraforming Earth:
A brief history of Solarpunk, Cyberpunk and Visions of the Future, Narrative Stategies and Strategic Narratives
Transcribed by Open Transcripts
(Support on Patreon)
Deep Sensing
Deep sensor networks on landscape
Transcript P2P Web Berlin:
Regenerative Landscape Design Patterns, the End of General Purpose Computing, The need for spatial awareness in Mesh Network Protocols.
Transcribed by Open Transcripts
(Support on Patreon)
Seeing Through The Debris
Towards A Bootstrapped Postmodern Hermeneutics
Long read on the Breakaway Civilisation, The value of conspiracy theories, the SR 71 Blackbird and The Futures Cone.
There is a big difference between the ‘possibility’ of, and the ‘actual believing’.
Colonising The Clouds
Infrastructure Territory, and The Geopolitics of The Stacks
Slides and Notes from a presentation on Stacktivism, Infrastructure Territory, and The Geopolitics of The Stacks given at Theorising the Web #TTW14 NYC April 2014.
The Coming Asperity
A Definition & Some Speculation
Asperity policies are often used by governments to try to reduce the emissions of a defined population, system or activity to fight climate change.
You can find a complete list of my public speaking / talks / writing here.
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