Anarres
You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or it is nothing.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
06 · Curation
Essays &
encounters
I frequently contribute essays and op-eds, and collaborate with other artists and thinkers.
Articles. Substack. Anarres.
In development
Two new curatorial projects
Online forum
Anarres
An online forum inspired by the revolutionary society in Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Dispossessed. Anarres will be a response to writing, art creation, and thought in an age of AI, bringing artists and thinkers together around new work, conversation, and experiments in collective thought.
Substack
Field Notes from a Haunting
A new Substack presenting ideas on memory, ghosts, AI, technology, and the challenges these pose to my embodied philosophy.
Selected essays and op-eds
10 entries2026
I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned
On living bodies, vulnerability, and what a lifetime of asking what it means to be alive has taught me.
The Guardian · Op-ed
2026
The Springing Time
A meditation on earlier springs and what other living beings might teach us about bringing our bodies into closer conversation with the seasons.
Emergence Magazine · Essay
2025
Gene Editing is Pollution
On the industrialisation of biology and the risks of treating living materials as another resource for technological manipulation.
The Ideas Letter · Essay
2022
Deer Man by Geoffroy Delorme
A review of Delorme’s account of seven years among roe deer, and of its transformational force and deliberate absence of autobiography.
The Guardian · Review
2022
On Death and Love
A personal essay on mortality, grief, love, and the consequences of our desire to outrun death.
Emergence Magazine · Essay
2021
Are humans animals?
A short essay on why our animal nature is so difficult for us to accept, and what follows from accepting it.
BBC Science Focus · Essay
2021
The Mirror of Nature
An essay on the stories through which human beings see themselves reflected in the living world.
INQUE · Essay
2021
Animals are our overlooked allies in the fight against Covid
On the nonhuman lives and biological knowledge embedded in vaccines, medicine, and pandemic response.
The Guardian · Op-ed
2021
Building back better won’t be possible unless we address our deep divisions
A reflection on fear, social division, and the difficult work of rebuilding public life after the pandemic.
The Globe and Mail · Op-ed
2018
A Dim Dark Smudge
A lyrical essay on mosquitoes, memory, and the moral difficulty of deliberately extinguishing another species.
The Clearing · Essay