Writing as a geographic practice
My writing practice is defined by a commitment to situated, embodied, and relational-material methods of attunement and composition. It responds to Katherine McKittrick’s call to write “where we know from” and Rebecca Solnit’s assertion that “a place is a story, and stories are geography”. Working alongside work in creative geographies, the geohumanities, feminist geographies and nonrepresentational theory, I explore ways of writing subject/world relations as entangled, co-compositional, and dynamic. This practice is an attempt at doing relational geographic theory and doing post-phenomenology – playing with modes of writing that animate the messy and unfixed interrelations of embodied emplacement.
Beneath my listed publications, you will find a collection of essays written in this modality. I have designed an accompanying zine for each essay- reach out if you would like a copy sent to you!
"I build my language with rocks"
– Édouard Glissant, L'Intention poétique
Self-Published Zines
PUBLICATIONS
2022. “Time and posthuman practice.” Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, 2(4): 198-210.
2023. “Sociotechnical Contours.” Carceral Edgelands, special issue of Sociology Lens, 36(1): 42-47.
2023 Book review, “Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control.” E3W Review of Books, 23(1).
2024 “Rethinking the Human/Nature Dualism and Subjectivity in Digital Age.” Ultra Journal of Immersive Art, 4(1).
2025 “Virtual Environments, Material Relations.” in The Wylie Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography (2nd Edition), eds. I. Ashutosh & J. Winders.
2025 (in review) “What Can the VR-using Body Do?” Digital Geography & Society.
2025 (forthcoming) Essay. Silicon Imaginaries: Elemental Materialities of Sociotechnical Configurations. Errant Elements, 1(1).
2026 (forthcoming) Book chapter, “Present Tense”. Accumulating Proximities: Affective modalities of time, space, feeling, and capacity. eds. B. Varga & A. Franklin-Phipps
INVITATIONS
2025 Summer Writing Intensive – Society for the Study of Affect
2025 FEELed lab Interdisciplinary Feminist Environmental Humanities Writing Workshop
2024 Colby Summer Institute for the Environmental Humanities
2023 Emergence Magazine Writing Workshop
on slip face
In August I was in the dunes for a while as they were doing their canter between air and earth, peeling away the ground out from underneath me.
Pollution/Repetition/Devotion
Pearl paints orthodox icons in her mom’s fifth story apartment, placed at the corner of two busy streets and the middle of a fermented eddy of busy air.
Particulate/Lung/Room
Wednesday night the two of us slept with pepper skins stilled in our unbrushed mouths, having fallen asleep sortof drunk and dangled, seared-up from to a go go day in the smog city.
Sun Damage
That morning of the eclipse, when the Event in question is the new moon’s crawl over the Texas sun, I sit in a mass of Event-witnessing strangers on a slat of dry riverbank.
Kitestring
Flying is mostly about holding a line, becoming grooved from its wraps around your palms, getting choked up around the fingernail by a thinness. Going looped. Pulling tight around the idea of a lift.
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A geologic For Loop::
for (initial [city]; increment [scaffolds]; limit [futurity]) { ... }
