I spend lots of my free time writing and editing, mostly about topics related to technology and culture.
Bylines
Here's all of my (public) writing and interviews from the past few years. Favorites are in bold!
Interviews
2023
- with Josh Citarella, on post-Internet art and online communities (Syntax Magazine)
- with JC Gabel, on George Plimpton, Merge Records, and Doomscrolling (ZINE MUNCH)
2022
- with Josh Glenn, on Hermenaut (ZINE MUNCH)
- with Paul Soullelis, on counterpublics, 'activist downloading,' and the risograph(ZINE MUNCH)
- with @meetmeintranspecos, on two shell, shitposting, and one direction (ZINE MUNCH)
- with Milo Miller, dangerous archives and mail networks (ZINE MUNCH)
- with Annie Rauwerda, on wikipedia esoterica and rogue editing (ZINE MUNCH)
- with Josh MacPhee, re chomsky and the kinko's night shift (ZINE MUNCH)
- with Alexander Star, on academia's gossip rag (ZINE MUNCH)
- with Jenna Freedman, on whether blogs can be zines (ZINE MUNCH)
- with Emily Liu and Jessica Dai, on Kernel Magazine (ZINE MUNCH)
2021
- with Lachlan Kermode, on Forensic Architecture and open source intelligence (The College Hill Independent)
Writing
2022
- On working in crypto after the crash (VICE)
- On Aaron Swartz (Reboot)
- Ameelio, and the limits of venture capital (Kernel Magazine)
- On BeReal (Dirt)
- Gig labor and equity in NFTs (VICE)
- Providence's emerging electronic music scene (The College Hill Independent)
- On ZINE MUNCH (ZINE MUNCH)
2021
- On tech workers jumping into crypto (VICE)
- ConstitutionDAO, a crypto discord that almost bought the constitution (Motherboard)
- Reading David Graeber's Debt (Reboot)
- On commons-based peer production and how to fund culture (Reboot)
- On TikTok, and the optimization of identity (Logic)
- Reddit's WallStreetBets (The College Hill Independent)
- Providence's Shell terminal (The College Hill Independent)
- Burial's Untrue and Mark Fisher (The College Hill Independent)
- SHL0MS and NFT art absurdism (The College Hill Independent)
2020
- On TikTok (The College Hill Independent)
- Lenny Cioe and Rhode Island Political Cooperative (The College Hill Independent)
- Greek life and the tension of abolition (The College Hill Independent)
- CA's Proposition 22 and the future of gig work (The College Hill Independent)
Editing
Founding Editor, Syntax Magzine (03/23-01/24)
With my friends Chia and Anabelle we curated and edited 18 pieces for the first issue of Syntax, a magazine about culture and the Internet we created. You can read more about Syntax here
- Anabelle Johnston, Scroll as Textile: An Interview with Maya Man
- Alicia Guo, a poem:
- Aidan Leitch, Monkey Bar Table
- Jane Freiman, Brest Life
- Lucas Gelfond and Anabelle Johnston, From the Editors
- Iman Husain, Prying Eyes
- Corinne Leong, I'm Gonna Bury You
- Ryan Chuang, Otto TV
- Justin Scheer, George's Promenade
- Angela Qian, Crush
- Will Allstetter, Are You There God? It's Me, the Algorithm.
- Lucia Kan-Sperling, You Never Render The Same River Twice
- Chia Amisola, Landscapes
- Lucas Gelfond, Online Communities and Institution-Building: An Interview with Josh Citarella
- Charlotte Silverman and Coco Kaleel, Gallery
- Cici Osias, Before the Current Captures You
- Ben Brill and Sam Smith, 42ftw
- Lauren Lee, Cups, Bells
Science & Tech Editor, The College Hill Independent (09/21-1/22)
Together, my co-editor Amelia and I published nine pieces. Favorites in bold!
- Lauren Fung, RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT, STRIKE!: Community organizing in the age of precarious work (9/16/21)
- Katherine Xiong, GRAFTING MODERNITY: Reimagining urbanism beyond the smart city (9/24/21)
- Mine Kovavisarach, The Good, the Bad, the Enduring: An exploration of the future of archiving and the limits of human memory
- Kenney Nguyen, The Simple Life: Becoming a Material Girl in a Digital World (10/7/21)
- Lucas Gelfond, Software Reconnaissance: An Interview with Lachlan Kemode (10/19/21)
- Sacha Sloan, Digital Dirty Work: The Human Toll of Facebook’s Content Moderation (11/11/21)
- Mariana Fajnzylber and Ella Spungen, Mycorrhizal Missives: Four letters from the forest floor (11/15/21)
- Saraphina Forman, Choreobotics: Dancing robots, DARPA, and the limits of art as critique (11/29/21)
- Kolya Shields, Anti-Capitalist Community Carbon Capture: How we reclaim green technology
I should note: the Indy always ran left of my tastes, and I left the paper when the staff voted to add "leftist" to the mission statement. Still, I grew immensely as a writer and editor, and love much of the work I did.
Contributing Editor, Kernel Magazine Issue 1 (05/21-09/21)
I edited two pieces for the first issue of Kernel Magazine, Jasmine Sun's take back the future! a progressive case for techno-optimism and Chris Painter's Unstoppable Mechanisms