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16/5/12 The dreadful luminosity of everything
On light.

11/4/12 We Found Love In A Coded Space
Talk from Lift 2012, about the New Aesthetic, concerning literature, sexuality, and collaborating with the network.

4/4/12 n/a (Pope Communique #1)
Network Realism -> New Aesthetic -> ?

2/4/12 Writing in Newspapers and Magazines
Recent work for the Observer, WIRED and ICON.

27/3/12 read/write
Attempting (and failing) to differentiate between things.

15/3/12 #sxaesthetic
The New Aesthetic goes to SXSW.

27/2/12 CERN
In which I am EXCITED about SCIENCE.

22/2/12 Kaleidoscopic Permutations
Agency, history, software, politics.

9/2/12 A Ship Adrift
A thing made out of ships, weather and the internet.

16/1/12 2012: Let’s Go
Janus-like glancing forwards and back.

15/12/11 Hard Times: For Our Times
50 Pirate Works for Charles Dickens.

5/12/11 The New Aesthetic: Waving at the Machines
Firing a laser through a cloud of ideas.

28/11/11 On Now and Next
A glanceable for radio.

1/11/11 Everything is the same only different
A talk from Books in Browsers on augmentation over enhancement.

5/10/11 The New Value of Text
There is an increasingly pervasive notion that other forms of media are additive to literature, that they somehow improve it. Because, you know, books are just telling stories, right?

19/9/11 Publishing Next: India
A brief report on ebooks and the future of publishing in the subcontinent.

13/9/11 Secret Servers
The architecture, aesthetics and perception of datacenters.

8/9/11 The System of the World: Rorschmap Redux
On the insistence of the network.

30/8/11 Won’t somebody think of the children?
On Laptops & Looms, and generations.

24/8/11 Readmill Beta Invites
The social reading service evolves.

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