On Breath

This text is a reflection I wrote in December of 2020 as a resident blogger in the Austrian Pavilion of … More

Circulation and Urbanization

My book, Circulation and Urbanization, is now available in print. back cover blurb: Circulation and Urbanization is a foundational investigation into … More

Circulatory Regimes: Bodies, Spaces, Power

Link (Thanks to Sophia Pia, Tobias and Hunter!)

Tools for a Speculative Imperialism

(Appearing in ED no 2: Architecture of Disaster, May 2018—Thanks to Nicholas Korody and Joanna Kloppenburg!) Shortly before his death … More

Becoming-Infrastructural

Published in e-flux architecture (part of the Positions project) It is hard to imagine how the many ruptures that have … More

Mare Magnum: Urbanization of Land and Sea

Introduction for pre-publication draft of a book chapter to appear in Peters, Kimberly, Phil Steinberg, Elaine Stratford, eds., 2017, Territory … More

Response to “Reframing the World as One City”

Looking at five predominant models for depicting urbanization (Global City Network, The World Is Spiky, Urban Age World, Single Planetary … More

Architecture of Preservation: On Neoliberal Time

Signing of an agreement with the China Jinmao Holdings Limited and Qingdao High-tech Industrial Development Zone to construct a franchise of … More

An Ecology of Bodies

Appearing in the March issue of The Avery Review (print edition here) It may be that, in the near future, we will … More

Infinite Circulation

excerpts from a forthcoming piece for Volume #47: Full text here …If circulation has been a collective ideology, providing truths that … More

Interior: Twelve Points on the Phenomenology of Empire

(Originally appearing in E.R.O.S Journal no. 7, ‘Interior’) Interior is an absolute condition—it both precedes its own construction and defines … More

Mare Magnum: Urbanization of the sea

First presented as part of a panel, Territory beyond Terra, with Phil Steinberg, Elaine Stratford and Kimberly Peters at the … More

To Fill the Earth: Architecture in a spaceless universe

First appearing in Architecture Against the Post-Political, edited by Nadir Lahiji. Reviewed in Radical Philosophy 188 The past two decades … More

Notes from the Resilient City

First appeared in Log 32 In June 2013, Michael Bloomberg, then mayor of New York City, announced an ambitious initiative … More

Lefebvre and Urbanization

First appeared in Society and Space Without a doubt, Henri Lefebvre’s work is seductive. He was the first person to … More

The Burden of the Present: On the concept of urbanisation

First appearing in Society and Space Republished in urbanNext.net To interrogate the relation between governmental practices and the slew of … More

Natura Urbans, Natura Urbanata: ecological urbanism, circulation and the immunization of nature

First published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 32 (eds. Bruce Braun and Stephanie Wakefield) In February … More

Private Property, Urbanisation and the Territorialisation of Debt

First appearing in Real Estates: Life without Debt Life and property, being and having, person and thing are pressed up together … More

Foreground, Background, Drama: The cinematic space of Le Mépris

André Bazin once wrote about cinema that “[o]ur experience of space is the structural basis for our concept of the … More

Longing for a Greener Present: Neoliberalism and the eco-city

As published in Radical Philosophy 163 A version of this also appeared in Architectural Review Asia Pacific (Australian Design Review) and Arch Daily … More

Approaching the End: Eden and the catastrophe to come

First appeared in Log 19 I once knew a madman who thought the end of the world had come. … More