Essays from a critical technologist, told through the interpretative lens of Black Studies and conceptual art.
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Aug
F&F Fiction: Perfection
A dawning realisation settles as I finish reading Vincent Latronico’s Perfection (2025). The novel’s symbiotic protagonists are an
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Jul
Fifteenth #20: On algorithmically aggravated addiction, with Dr. Romy Gad el Rab
10:20am, and I have already picked up my phone 16 times. I have been awake four hours and have
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Jul
First #20: Logging Off
⚠️ This review is about a book that discusses self-harm and suicide.
We have passed the point at which our
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Jun
Fifteenth #19: On water
London is a city of forgotten streams and lost rivers; of sedimented layers encasing ancient waterways that have long since
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Jun
First # 19: Natural Connection
Technology is manufactured — chemically intensive and extractive processes are deployed to transform raw materials into sophisticated digital devices. Technology demands
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May
Fifteenth #18: On the slopcore aesthetic
There is a strange glaze mediating your perception of the synthetic images in your feed. At first glance, you sense
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May
First #18: Enshittification
If you are steeped in internet culture, this is a word that you might have encountered sometime in the last
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Apr
Fifteenth #17: On unlearning
Why do we do research? This might seem like an insultingly simple question, yet perhaps we have never paused to
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Apr
First #17: Research for People Who Think They Would Rather Create
Research for People Who Think They Would Rather Create is a slender manual written by Dirk Vis — a Dutch lecturer