U̶t̶o̶p̶i̶a̶ (Another End of the World is Possible) (2021)
Lecture interrogating the inadequacy and necessity of utopia. This best represents my current thinking on utopia(nism). For the & Utopia lecture series [link]
Capacious Composition: An Interview with Rebecca Lee (2021)
A feature interview with the composer and artist Rebecca Lee [British Music Collection]
The Only Realism: Utopia Within, Utopia Against, Utopia Beyond (2020)
An essay calling for utopian realism against realistic utopianism [Blindfield]
Making it up, this moment of June (2018)A collage essay on the politics of listening as place-making. Commissioned by Rebecca Lee for her score Making it up, this moment of June. [link]
(Why we can’t) Let The Machines do it (with Sophie Lewis, 2015) A Response to Inventing the Future by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek [The Disorder of Things]
7 Thoughts on Basic Income and Utopia (2015)
Originally written for Novara; republished here in solidarity with #BoycottNovara [link]
Wasted Common: A Future History of two Urban Wastelands (2014) A collage audio essay produced for Resonance FM [link]
The Rhizome: A Potato Fascism? (2013)
Interrogating Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome. Originally published in Nottingham Visual Arts. [link]
Creativity, Capital and Commons in the Contemporary City: Nottingham’s Island Wasteland (2013)
Written version of a talk given in various locations. [link]
Playing the Future: Improvisation and Nomadic Utopia (2012)A pamphlet-essay commissioned for the exhibition Thinking Ourselves into Existence at Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; curated by Psykick Dancehall and Jon Marshall. [link]
What is this that Stands Before Me? A History of Dissonance, 1322-2055 (2011) Written version of a talk given at Nottingham Contemporary as part of Klaus Weber’s exhibition If You Leave Me I’m not Coming. [link]