As part of wrapping up the work I’m doing toward a PhD, I realized the other day that I’d never actually compiled anything like a comprehensive bibliography, and that it’s well past time I fixed that. Here, then, is a reasonably complete roundup of things I’ve published in all the years since I was SPIN‘s worst and most teenaged staff writer, back at the tail end of the foul Eighties. I’ll update this as I remember or stumble across pieces I’ve gotten into print in one way or another.
• Beyond Lifehouse and the four books before that, as of this writing my published works include:
– “New Romancer: An interview with William Gibson,” SPIN, December 1988.
– “Some guidelines for the ethical development of ubiquitous computing,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Vol 366 Issue 1881, October 28th, 2008.
– “Blueshifted,” in Nurri Kim, Tokyo Blues, NYC and Helsinki: Do Projects, 2009.
– “At the end of the world, plant a tree: six questions for Adam Greenfield,” Interactions Vol 16 Issue 4, July 1st, 2009.
– “Of Sidewalks and Signals: Learning to Listen on The Urban Frequency,” in J.-L. De Vicente, ed., Invisible Fields: Geographies of Radio Waves, Barcelona: Actar, 2011.
– “Perilous Asymmetries,” in Trust Design: The Internet of Things, supplement to Volume 28, July 2011.
– “The City Is Here For You To Use: 100 easy pieces,” Cityscapes No. 3, June 28th, 2013.
– “Fear in the Bones and the Right To The City, or: The Monster At The End of The Block,” in J. van t’Zelfde, ed., Dread: The Dizziness of Freedom, Amsterdam: Valiz, 2013.
– “Route Master,” The Journal of the London Society No. 466, Autumn/Winter 2014.
– “The Blind Planner,” ICON 138, December 2014.
– “Profit Uber Alles: Networked Mobility as the Successful Socialization of Risk,” in Ali Fard and Taraneh Meshkani, eds., New Geographies 07: Geographies of Information, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2015.
– “Zeroville-on-Khambhat, or: The clean slate’s cost,“ Dialogues in Human Geography Vol 5 Issue 1, March 2015.
– “Practices of the Minimum Viable Utopia,“ in Lucy Bullivant, ed., Architectural Design Special Issue: 4D Hyperlocal, A Cultural Toolkit for the Open-Source City, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
– “Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appalling? Labor-saving technology and the ideology of ease,” in Eszter Steierhoffer and Justin McGuirk, eds., Home Futures: Living In Yesterday’s Tomorrow, London: Design Museum, 2018.
– “Of Systems and Purposes,” in Ricky Burdett and Philipp Rode, eds., Shaping Cities in an Urban Age, New York City: Phaidon, 2018.
– “Shuck The Police: Are We Done With Traditional Law Enforcement?,” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2nd, 2018.
– “China’s Dangerous Dream of Urban Control,” The Atlantic, February 14th, 2018.
– “As Above/So Below,” Foam No 51, August 14th, 2018.
– “Sincerity Systems,” e-flux, October 2019.
– “Disobedient Technologies,” Engagée 9, 2020/2021.
– “All those complicit in Neom’s design and construction are already destroyers of worlds,” Dezeen, November 2nd, 2022.
• With Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi:
– “To Connect and Flow in Seoul: Ubiquitous Technologies, Urban Infrastructure and Everyday Life in the Contemporary Korean City,” in M. Foth, ed., Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City, Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2008.
• With Mark Shepard:
– Situated Technologies 1: Urban Computing and Its Discontents, New York City: Architectural League of New York, 2007.
• Articles in The Guardian, 2014-2021:
– “Helsinki’s ambitious plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 years,” July 10th, 2014.
– “Buses are the future of urban transport. No, really,” August 27th, 2014.
– “A global parliament of mayors? Just what cities need – more bureaucracy,” September 18th, 2014.
– “The smartest cities rely on citizen cunning and unglamorous technology,” December 22nd, 2014.
– “Is Facebook’s ‘Zee Town’ more than just a Mark Zuckerberg vanity project?,” March 10th, 2015.
– “Whatever happened to the reinvention of the UK high street?,” September 7th, 2015.
– “Where are the world’s newest cities … and why do they all look the same?,” January 28th, 2016.
– “Rise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for?,” June 6th, 2017.
– “We know Amazon is killing the high street, so why do we keep clicking on ‘buy now’?,” April 26th, 2021.
– “Non-fungible tokens aren’t a harmless digital fad – they’re a disaster for our planet,” May 29th, 2021.