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
Fiction
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
Foreword to Applied Ballardianism
I wrote the following text in 2017. It was designed as the “foreword” to Applied Ballardianism, written from the perspective of the fictional Dr Ricardo… Read More »Foreword to Applied Ballardianism
Purple Light
Published in Happy Hypocrite 8: Fresh Hell. Edited by Sophia Al-Maria. Featuring William Gibson, Mckenzie Wark, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Monira Al Qadiri, Stephanie Bailey, Alex Borkowski, Judy Darragh, Navine… Read More »Purple Light
Tohoku Dreaming
‘Tohoku Dreaming’, originally published in Flightless, Footscray: Lonely Planet Publications, 2008. The last job they gave me was book-ended by madness. It began somewhere in… Read More »Tohoku Dreaming
New Map of Hell
Illustration by Nick Howlett, from Abaddon #2. Originally published in Abaddon #2, Autumn 1999. I shrug off the clucking of my family and make my… Read More »New Map of Hell