a sampling of essays, talks, and other specimens
Thoreau and the art of losing (essay + audio)
Column, Arnoldia Winter 2024
Raveling and unraveling at the edge of music (essay + audio)
My column for the fall 2024 issue of Arnoldia, via Substack.
My column for the Fall 2023 issue of Arnoldia Magazine, shared online via Substack.
In old-growth forest, a more-than-human mythology finds refuge.
Using machine learning to explore connections between the rise of technology and the enormity of biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene.
Interactive & participatory series of events to explore feral biodiversity, food systems, and mutual aid.
With help from Alfred Hitchcock, remixing fragments of the philosophical history of machine intelligence, from the work of two authors in particular: Wilhem Gottfried Leibniz and Alan Turing.
Figurines, fishers, bugs and bats — how things in the world become sacred objects in a museum.
2013 Orion Magazine column explored technology entangled in experiences of the living world.
Excerpt from Tree, my Object Lessons book (Bloomsbury 2017).
All creatures must learn to cultivate the feral qualities.
Invasive trees offer unique perspectives on the more-than-human city. An event arranged by the New Natures Foundry; Umeå Studies in Science, Technology, and Environment; and Department of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies. May 17, 2016.
A talk about standards—in measurement, science, design, and materials—as social texts. Delivered at the 2014 Books in Browsers conference, San Francisco. October 27, 2014.
The feral is a metaphor — and maybe more than just a metaphor — for thriving in cyberspace, a habitat that changes too rapidly for anyone truly to be native. In this talk, I weave critical and reflective discussion of online experience with a short story from my collection, The Sovereignties of Invention.
In connection with the Occupy movement, I offered a short talk about libraries as part of past social-justice movements.