Real artists have nothing to fear from AI
Headline essay on the aesthetics of AI art, with a focus on Christie's Augmented Intelligence auction for the Spectator arts pages.
Selected Works
Essays
Why young MAGA supporters are flocking to Remilia
Article on the net-art collective Remilia and the MAGA movement for the Spectator. Featured on the cover of the March 2025 American edition. Recorded version available at the Spectator Out Loud podcast.
Towards a New Net Art
An essay on the history and future of internet art, published in the first issue of the avant-art magazine Remilia Quarterly.
Your Dumbphone Won't Save You
A widely shared and cited polemic against ‘dumbphone’ asceticism and online anti-tech movements.
Film
Megalopolis' Lessons
A review of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (2024) for IM-1776.
Twilight of the Urban Haute Bourgeoise
A review of Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan (1990) for IM-1776’s Christmastide American Film series. Featured on RealClear Books&Culture.
Death of the Auteur
A review of Jean-Luc Godard's final work Scénario(s), shown at the ICA in December 2024.
Jean-Luc the Swiss Rasta Wizard
A tribute to my cinematic hero, Jean-Luc Godard.
Reviews
All Fall Down
A review of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revenge of the Tipping Point (2024) for the Literary Review.
The Art of Losing
A review of Costica Bradatan’s In Praise of Failure (2023) for the Literary Review. Featured on Daily Nous Philosophy Resources Update.
Criticism as Publicity
A review of Brian Dillon’s Essayism (2017) and Suppose a Sentence (2020).
Philosophy for the People
A review of Julian Baggini’s How to Think Like a Philosopher (2023) for the Literary Review.
Beyond Figs & Pears
An exploration of how we might move beyond the ‘culture wars’ and the tenability of contemporary liberalism in my review of Bryan Fanning’s Public Morality and the Culture Wars (2023) for the Literary Review.
Travel
Against Against Travel
A travel diary from Romania, and a response to Agnes Callard’s much-discussed essay ‘The Case Against Travel’.
TravelDiary_02
A diary of a trip to Southern Spain, published on my Substack.
Translation
‘I am an author’, he said laughingly, ‘and I think that you’re an author too’
A translation from the Swedish of Chapter Four of Stig Larsson’s The Autists (1979).
Projects
Above Ground
A zine about online and offline culture created together with Jessica Anne Rose, Claire Jean and Joe Oswald.