Selected Journalism (outdated)

 

FEATURES

— The Pandemic Countryside Boom, on the demand for quarantine real estate (New Yorker, 2020)

Architecture & Pandemic, on COVID-19’s impact on our spaces (New Yorker, 2020)

— Did the Internet Kill Monoculture?, on algorithmic culture and social experience (Vox, 2019)

— My Own Private Iceland, on overtourism and the search for authenticity (Vox, 2019)

— Group Therapy for the End of the World, on a climate-change retreat in rural Sweden (Garage Magazine, 2018)

The World Is Your Office, on digital nomads and the startup Roam (NYT Magazine, 2018)

The Rise of Left Media, on Current Affairs magazine and leftist publications (The Ringer, 2017)

— Future Agency, on design studios that imagine and create futuristic experiences (The Verge, 2017)

— Living on a Prayer, on defunct churches being converted into hipster condos (Curbed, 2016)

— The Library of Last Resort, on the Library of Congress’s failure to adapt to the internet (n+1, 2016)

— Utopia, on a reality TV show that tried to create a perfect society (Matter, 2014)

— Wow This Is Doge, on finding the birth of an internet meme (The Verge, 2013)

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ESSAYS

— Notes on Vibe, on TikTok and the capturing of mundane poetic moments (New Yorker, 2021)

— Culture of Negation, on our pandemic-era pursuit of feeling nothing (NYT Magazine, 2021)

— The Rise of Ambient TV, on ignorable but interesting streaming shows (New Yorker, 2020)

How Do You Describe TikTok?, on the platform’s automated feed of culture (newsletter, 2020)

— The Art World’s Travel Addiction, on cosmopolitanism and climate change (Frieze, 2019)

— Being in Nothingness, on Ikebana and Existentialism in 1950s Japan (Harper’s, 2019)

— In the Shadow of the CMS, on media companies selling their own software (The Nation, 2019)

— Style Is an Algorithm, on taste and technology (Vox, 2018)

— Crypto-Luxury, on digital currencies as the latest high-end consumer good (Garage, 2018)

— A Japanese Philosopher in Pre-War Paris, on Kuki Shuzo (Affidavit, 2017)

The Grays of Our Lives, on the aesthetics of gray clothing (Racked, 2017)

Reign, Supreme, on the streetwear brand and cultural meme (Racked, 2017)

— Playing House, on Airbnb and fantasy lives (Curbed, 2016)

Welcome to AirSpace, on the generic spaces and places created by digital technology (The Verge, 2016)

— The Oppressive Gospel of Minimalism, on the trendy misuse of the word (NYT Magazine, 2016)

— The Design of Fake News, on the ways Google and Facebook disguise shoddy websites (The Verge, 2016)

— Right Now, Forever, on the eternal presentness of 21st-century art (Hazlitt, 2015)

— Babes at the Museum, on my life in figure drawing (Adult, 2014)

— The Afterlife of Memes, on Doge and the strange persistence of virtual fame (Matter, 2014)

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AUDIO INTERVIEWS

— Longform

— David Zwirner Podcast

— The Digital Human (BBC)

— North Star

— On Point

PROFILES

Beeple Broke the Art World, on Mike Winkelmann and the NFT market (New Yorker, 2021)

— The Decisive Moment, on Artforum and David Velasco (Columbia Journalism Review, 2019)

— All-Day Cafes, on restaurant designers The MP Shift (T magazine, 2018)

Be Happy with Less, on The Minimalists bloggers and podcasters (The Cut, 2017)

Startup Investing for Sport & Profit, on the VC investor Jeff Jordan (The Ringer, 2017)

— New York’s Renaissance Man, on Julian Schnabel (Port magazine, 2017)

The Last Lifestyle Magazine, on Kinfolk and Nathan Williams (Racked, 2016)

— Tomi Lahren Has Some Thoughts, on the far-right pundit and social media personality (The Ringer, 2016)

— Joshua Cohen Is Not Online, on the novelist’s exploration of tech (Rolling Stone, 2015)

— Uber for Janitors, on Managed by Q, whose contract cleaners have employee rights (Bloomberg, 2015)

— The Apartment-Sharing Economy, on the coliving startup Common (Bloomberg, 2015)

— Coworking & Rock Climbing, on Brooklyn Boulder’s definition of work-life balance (Bloomberg, 2015)

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REVIEWS

— The Home Edit, Netflix’s reality show about plastic boxes (New Yorker, 2020)

— Donald Judd, on the Museum of Modern Art’s Judd retrospective (New Republic, 2020)

 Condé Nast, on the man who provided a model for the magazine industry, for better or worse (The New Republic, 2019)

— Air Mail, on Graydon Carter’s email newsletter venture (The Nation, 2019)

— George Trow & Social Media, on how the writer’s criticism relates to the internet (The Nation, 2019)

— The Tale of Genji, on an exhibition of art inspired by the novel at the Metropolitan (The New Republic, 2019)

— Tidying Up, on Marie’s Kondo’s Netflix reality show about cleaning house (The New Republic, 2019)

— The Brand Builder, on the architect Bjarke Ingels (The New Republic, 2018)

— Nowhere Mag, on Monocle (The New Republic, 2017)

— Dronestagrams, on a book of photography taken using drones (The New Republic, 2017)

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MISC. COMMENTARY

— New American Maximalism, on Drake and Gigi Hadid’s elaborate interiors (New Yorker, 2020)

— Mimetic Protest Murals, on D.C.’s Black Lives Matter public art piece (New Yorker, 2020)

The Designification of Healthcare, on the aesthetics of medical start-up branding (Metropolis, 2019)

— Engineering the End of Fashion, on LOT2046 and fashion without choice (Ssense, 2018)

— Conversation Pits Make a Comeback, on furniture and socializing (Curbed, 2017)

— Deconstructing Selfies, on the painter Matthew Miller (Hazlitt, 2014)

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CONVERSATIONS

— Patrick Li (Ssense, 2019)

— Geoff Dyer (Hazlitt, 2016)

Edmund de Waal (Hazlitt, 2015)