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Return of the Repressed: Oceanwide’s Angeleno Ghost City
Abandoned towers covered in graffiti in downtown Los Angeles 12/12/2024 from b2o: an online journal Special Issue “The Gordian Knot of...
Dec 13, 20242 min read


MEN | Finance Aesthetics
It comes down to what speculative financial structures Musk's version of masculinity allowed him to build on top of Tesla derivatives.
Nov 11, 20241 min read


The Sexy History of Banking
A conference in April on why banking matters.
Apr 10, 20243 min read


ASA in New Orleans
In November, I flew to New Orleans for The American Studies Association's annual meeting, on the theme The Roof Is On Fire. I got to...
Nov 8, 20221 min read


ASAP in Los Angeles
I wrote about Synanon, and a strange set of personal connections I have to the history of that group, for this talk. Fingers crossed I...
Sep 19, 20221 min read


THE REAL PRODUCTIVITY: CREATIVE REFUSAL AND CULTISH TENDENCIES IN ONLINE PRINT COMMUNITIES
Fall 2022 Chapter in New Directions in Print Culture Studies, from Bloomsbury, eds. Jesse Schwarz and Daniel Worden Straddling the...
Jun 30, 20221 min read

Special Issue of Distinktion
In Distinktion, Journal of Social Theory, in November I published " Radical Flexibility: driving for Lyft and the future of work in the...
May 6, 20221 min read


Are we all porn workers now?
A conversation about gig work, all work, listening to workers, and porn, with The American Vandal and Dr. Heather Berg
Feb 7, 20221 min read


Radical Flexibility
In Distinktion, Journal of Social Theory, in November I finally published " Radical Flexibility: driving for Lyft and the future of work...
Jan 21, 20222 min read


RADICAL FLEXIBILITY - Driving for lyft and the future of work in the platform economy.
Nov 2021 - Distinktion Journal of Social Theory Driving for Lyft and the future of work in the platform economy Distinktion: Journal of...
Nov 16, 20211 min read


Strategic Audio
At The Los Angeles Review of Books, I was part of a team of editors working on cluster of essays about developments in streaming media....
Jul 1, 20211 min read


New Directions in Print Culture
I'm excited to be part of a collection coming out soon from Bloomsbury , called New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives,...
May 27, 20211 min read

Beyond The Routledge
"What might the field look like if it were to topple, or at least more thoroughly scrutinize, the reception of the realist novel as the...
May 20, 20211 min read


Podcast from Sydney
The brilliant Melinda Cooper introduced me last December when I was in Sydney, and this podcast is a talk that I gave based on my ALH...
Jan 30, 20201 min read


THE RISE OF BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMIC MASCULINITY
Dec 2019 - American Literary History The “Real Invisible Hand”: From Howard Roark to Homer Simpson and the Economy Explained. On 6...
Dec 31, 20191 min read
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