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Writing

Haunted Mazes (forthcoming)

Essay. Paper mazes, the 1970s, Georges Bataille, Iraq, New Age dogma, Atari 2600, philosophical toys, William Faulkner, Robert Smithson, nomadic consciousness, IKEA.

Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything (2006)

Book. Ancient cosmology, defunct physics, mesmerism, radio, Edgar Allan Poe, Federico Fellini, Japanimation, theosophy, fascism, Wilhelm Reich, 60s avant-garde cinema, installation art, e-commerce, alchemy, time-work studies, August Strindberg, etc., etc.

F2F (2005)

Hypertext film essay with video content. Gilles Deleuze, faces, backs of heads, Monica Vitti, Robert Smithson, hair part theorists, Issey Miyake, Jean Luc Godard, Psychogeography, Alfred Hitchcock, Max Ernst

Do Not Mingle One Human Feeling (2005)

Essay. Jenny Lind, phonophotography, musical emotion, sheet music, racialized notions of performance

Making the World Safe For Fashionable Philosophy! (2003)

Essay. The Matrix and Jean Baudrillard

Superflux of Sky (2003)

Essay. Ether, spectrum allocation, mysticism and the "new" economy

From The Style Manuals (2002)

Fiction. Suggested usages, and some life lessons, from Strunk and White

The Parking Lots of Summerfest (2001)

Non-fiction. Lost in the dark peripheries of a festival, street performers running scared

Riddles of the Interface (2001)

Essay. Multimedia art, afrofuturism

Radiophonic Laura (2000)

Hypertext film essay with video content. Film sound, the uncanny, Vera Caspary, Otto Preminger, artificial intelligence, radio art, David Lynch, cybernetics.

Think Again: Artificial Intelligence, Television and Video (1998)

Essay. Emergence, quality television, Homicide, Will Shortz, video art, photogenie, data visualization, Marvin Minsky, Philip Marlowe, Gilles Deleuze, Inspector Morse

Pixelated Drama (1997)

Essay. The importance of the pixel, via a meditation on Garry Kasparov versus Deep Blue

Radiophonic Ontologies and the Avantgarde (1996)

Essay. Radio art, modernist performance, psychoanalysis, Samuel Beckett, Futurism, Gregory Whitehead, Antonin Artaud

I've provided links and downloads here of some of my published writings (media theory, cultural studies, fiction and general non-fiction) that may not be easily retrievable otherwise. I've decided not to include any poems, shopping lists, or engine specs.