I’ve published essays and articles in disciplinary journals of political theory, in peer-reviewed interdisciplinary outlets, and in public-facing fora. Many of these publications are available on my ResearchGate profile; I am also happy to pass them along directly if you contact me.
Marx on Slavery and Capital in the American Civil War
Political Theory, forthcoming.
A reinterpretation of Marx’s journalism on the US Civil War as a major episode in the development of his historical materialism, one which reshaped his understanding of technology, ecology, and class struggle in capitalist society.
Marx and the Problem of Advertising
With Alicia Steinmetz. Theory & Event, forthcoming.
A coauthored essay on the puzzle of why Marx never wrote about advertising, and about what his theory of capitalism nonetheless entails for how advertising should be understood, in his time and in ours.
Rifle Theory:
Engels and the History of Technology
Political Theory, vol. 51, no. 4, 2023
A reading of Friedrich Engels’s forgotten “History of the Rifle” (1861), reconstructing his non-deterministic account of technological change and reflecting on its political significance.
Engels after Frankfurt:
Nature and Enlightenment in Critical Theory
New German Critique, vol. 50, no. 1, 2023
An essay on the relationship between Engels’s philosophy of science and the Frankfurt School’s account of positivism—and on how critical theory should comprehend nature today.
Silence is violence, and so is speech
New Political Science, vol. 44, no. 1, 2022
A synoptic interpretation of contemporary impasses in the cultural politics of language, arguing that we cannot resolve debates about “linguistic violence” simply through conceptual analysis or intellectual history.
The Utopian Shadow of Normative Reconstruction
Constellations, vol. 25, no. 3, 2018
An article about gender studies and the Frankfurt School, examining how new ways of thinking about freedom and social reproduction can help us grasp the utopian dimensions of intimacy and relationality.
Quaker Nonviolence in Apartheid Cape Town, 1976–1990
European Journal of Political Theory, vol. 19, no. 4, 2020
An article, based on archival research, about how white Quakers in apartheid-era Cape Town struggled with the meaning of their theological-political pacifism amid the systemic injustice of their society.
Selected other writing in interdisciplinary venues and public-facing outlets
Books reviews (selected)
Review of Sven-Eric Liedman’s The Game of Contradictions: The Philosophy of Friedrich Engels and Nineteenth-Century Science, for Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
Review of Søren Mau’s Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital, for Contemporary Political Theory.
A Rumble in the Taupe Hum of Info-Capital
(with Matthew Claudel)
Journal of Design and Science, 2019 — A coauthored essay critiquing the Silicon Valley obsession with the Singularity as a symptom of the neoliberal project of “informational capitalism” in urban and digital space.
How would Marx react to AI?
IAI News, January 2024 — A short piece on the continuing significance of Marxist theories of technology for making sense of the present.
Surveillance as Infrastructure
The Site Magazine, summer 2020 — Brief contribution to a larger magazine symposium on technology, the built environment, and culture amid the pandemic.