Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen is a series published on the Cultural Anthropology journal website. It is a collection of short articles that asks, “What would it take, we…
Futures
Catastrophes and Promises
Catastrophes and Promises is a book of fragments. It was made from brief words heard during the plenary panel at 4S-EASST 2016 in Barcelona, and written down on torn-out notebook…
This is not a poem (this is an STS problem)
This piece was composed and performed for the STS Problems roundtable, as part of 4S-EASST 2016 conference in Barcelona. Endre Dányi and Noortje Marres invited and inspired short interventions in…
Electric Nemesis on Smart Power
In March, the UK National Infrastructure Commission released a report on how the electricity grid needs to change in order to keep the lights on, and meet the 2050 targets…
Orkney Standard Time
“This is how I was born, how my creator, Victor Frankenstein, sparked me into energetic life…” So began my performance-paper at 4S 2015 (Society for Social Studies of Science) and…
Ebban An’ Flowan book
Ebban an’ flowan is the world’s first poetic primer on marine renewable energy. The book focuses on the Orkney islands, as the leading international test site for this nascent energy…
Invisible Work in Marine Energy
Free to download. A collection of seven cards demonstrating the invisible work ongoing at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), in the Orkney islands, Scotland – the world’s first grid-connected…
Pixels and Pencils Wordmap
As part of my performance paper at Nordic STS this year, at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, I created a Wordmap to guide visitors through my world-made-in-words, a world made from…
Zombie Futures in the Mobile Telecoms Industry
There is a long archaeology of futures in the mobile telecoms industry, futures that have appeared with much fanfare, been forgotten, and then resurrected once more. The ‘watchphone’ (recently popularised…
Poem for an Entangled Age
Poem for an Entangled Age, handcrafted book. This poem was written and edited during the symposium Environmental Entanglements: Art, Technology & Natures at Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Copenhagen, 28-29…
Design Mailboat
This book chapter began as a performance keynote at 4S/EASST 2012 annual conference in Copenhagen. Lucy Suchman, Pelle Ehn, and myself were asked to consider the conference theme ‘Design and…
The Work of a Poetic Ethnographer
In September 2014 I gave a paper-performance on my poetic research methods at the Department for Thematic Studies, Social and Technical Change (TEMA-T), Linköping University. In the discussion we talked…