Adam Greenfield's Speedbird

Today, twenty years to the day since I launched this experiment, feels like a real good moment to shut it down and try something entirely new.

I’m not sure if anyone’s still coming here in 2026.

As part of wrapping up the work I’m doing toward a PhD, I realized the other day that I’d never actually compiled anything like a comprehensive bibliography, and that it’s well past time I fixed that.

Just a heads-up that the listing for my forthcoming book Beyond Hope: Collective Power and Mutual care in the Long Emergency has just gone live on Amazon here in the UK, and that you’d be doing me a real solid by pre-ordering it via the link.

Not long ago I received the very welcome news that the publishing house GOG Edizioni was interested in bringing out an Italian translation of my 2013 pamphlet “Against the Smart City,” in time for its tenth anniversary.

I don’t write here any more, obviously.

It feels to me, beloved — and plainly has felt for some time — like this is no longer an organic way for me to work through ideas and share that work with you, so I think I’m gonna close up shop.

Pursuant to my recent trip to St Petersburg, the cats at ForbesLife Russia wanted to chat with me about “my attitude to some controversial urban technologies.”

It may well be impossible to write about the major thrusts of contemporary urbanization without nurturing and giving vent to a certain ice-cold rage, like that which suffuses Aaron Timms’ clear-eyed, expert evisceration of the New Manhattan and its soulle…

Back around the turn of the millennium, one of the brightest lights in my own personal intellectual firmament was the philosopher Manuel De Landa.