Writing

Select publications. Self-published writing is on Substack.

Measuring What Matters in Large Language Model Performance: Taking stock of LLM benchmarks Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery | March 2026

The Future is Reversible: A decades-old idea could fuel innovation for years to come Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery | January 2026

AI Safety Connect Addresses a Key Concern at the U.N. General Assembly Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery | November 2025

Scrutinizing LLM Reasoning Models Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery | August 2025

Ten Years of Psychedemia — and the Future Journal of Psychedelic Studies | May 2023

Who Can It Be Now Real Life Magazine | September 2022 (French translation)

“Computer and Information Ethics” Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy | September 2022 (email me for access: [email protected])

The Digital Image of Thought La Deleuziana | March 2022

Curiosity and Anti-Economy: A Reply to Florian Jaton Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective | April 2022

Golem (poetry) Strukturriss | December 2021

Appeal (fiction) Peculiar Mormyrid | October 2021

Talking Acid Communism with Emma Stamm Plus Three Podcast | September 2021

Salience Machines: A Review of Florian Jaton’s The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective | September 2021

Robinhood’s Gamification of Investing Combines Surveillance Capitalism with Finance Capitalism Vice Magazine | December 2020

Anomalous Forms in Computer Music M/C Journal | October 2020

Exploring Interdisciplinary Pedagogy with “Data in Social Context” co-authored with Marcia Davitt, Tom Ewing, and Leanna Ireland | SPECTRA Journal | August 2020

The epilogue and an excerpt from the final chapter of “Hallucinating Facts: Psychedelic Science and the Epistemic Power of Data,” my doctoral dissertation | March 2020

Computation, Infinity, and the Production of Subjects Beyond Representation Evental Aesthetics | November 2019

The Electric Kool-Aid Turing Test: Psychedelics, Phenomenology and Automated Intelligence Spheres Journal | November 2019

Tune In, Turn On, Rise Up: Acid Against Austerity Commune Mag | June 2019 (Spanish translation)

Present Perfect: How Chats and Live Streams Let Us Consume Real Time As a Commodity Real Life Mag | May 2019

McKenzie Wark’s General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century Marx and Philosophy Review of Books | February 2019

Dimensionality Curses (fiction) Oasis Journal | May 2018

On Elephant Skin: Critical Data Studies and Political Economy Reflections, The Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance Blog | December 2018

Ordinary Doses: New Research Into Psychedelic Drugs Is Constrained By Technological Solutionism Real Life Mag | October 2018

Andrew Feenberg’s Technosystem Humanities and Technology Review | July 2018

Immortal Techniques: 23andMe Makes The Human Body Immortal At Last The New Inquiry | January 2018

Blockchain Revolution: Coverage of the Inaugural DC Blockchain Summit Coindesk | March 2016

The Crimson Ghost The New Inquiry | June 2015

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