Architectural Review Asia Pacific
From 2011 to 2012, I was the managing editor of Architectural Review Asia Pacific. AR is one of Australia’s top two architecture publications, the other… Read More »Architectural Review Asia Pacific
Simon Sellars
Energie Cottbus
‘Energie Cottbus’ first appeared in Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures (Twelfth Planet Press, ed. Matthew Chrulew, March 2022). Virtual fixtures I surveil them through my… Read More »Energie Cottbus
Recalibrating New Suburbia
Originally published in Architecture Australia, 30 September 2021. Kay Street Housing, Carlton, by Edmond and Corrigan for the Ministry of Housing (1983). Image: John Gollings. It is… Read More »Recalibrating New Suburbia
Learning to live with aggressionless cars
Originally published in Foreground, 15 April, 2021 In the new book Learning to Live Together: Humans, Cars and Kerbs in Solidarity, the authors, Guillermo Fernández-Abascal and… Read More »Learning to live with aggressionless cars
Shell World Blues
Originally published in Plaza Protocol, 2021. With an audible sigh, the autonaka deposited Kalsari Jones at the vast, dilapidated shopping mall. He supposed he deserved… Read More »Shell World Blues
Regina
‘Regina’ was originally published in Parasol 5: Zones (Centre for Experimental Ontology). I There’s something you should know about me. I’m an obsessive walker. I… Read More »Regina
Report from an Unidentified Fire Tower
Originally published in Minority Report, 5 August 2020 I High in the tower, above the forest and the fields, I scour the vague terrain for… Read More »Report from an Unidentified Fire Tower
Sentient glitchglot cheater infection: from discovery to ongoing review
The following story was originally published in Insufficient Armour (Nero, 2020), a collection of essays from the Italian publisher Nero to promote Giorgio Di Salvo’s… Read More »Sentient glitchglot cheater infection: from discovery to ongoing review
Love Is a Totalitarian State that Grows Deep Inside Me
Originally published in Šum #14: Ljubljanastrophe, March 2020 It was midnight. The autonaka was shilling for customers, trundling up and down some micro-intervention shopping strip… Read More »Love Is a Totalitarian State that Grows Deep Inside Me
A Secret History of Zones
Applied Ballardianism is a fictionalised account of my life as a former academic, travel writer and architecture critic. Throughout, the unnamed narrator, my avatar, struggles… Read More »A Secret History of Zones