Words In Space

Fall 2026 Website As institutional higher education faces proliferating threats, and as formal learning becomes ever-more instrumental and ever-less convivial, we’ve observed the propagation of alternative schools, study groups, and intentional learning c…

On September 11, 2026, I presented "The Inertia Apparatus: Furnishing Repose and Refusal" as part of the “Intellectual Furniture: A (Pre-)History of Large Language Models” conference at the University of Basel.

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“Maintenance Across Civic Ecologies” in Sarah Demeuse, ed., Medina Triennial 2026 Guidebook (designed by Other Means)

On September 21, 2026, I joined American Artist, Ericka Hart, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed on the “Computation Everywhere” panel at the School for Poetic Computation’s Poetic Promenade at Roulette in Brooklyn.

On May 8, 2026, I presented “Repertoires of Inquiry: Attunement, Curiosity, and Responsibility” at the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies’s Methods Camp.

On May 5, 2026, I presented “A Convocation of Toolkits” as part of the “Box Things: A Roundtable” at the Peabody Museum at Yale.

On April 16, 2026, I shared "How to Conduct a Didactic Dismantlement: A Catalogue of Pedagogic Deeds” as part of the “Pedagogy of the Deed" Series in the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University How to Conduct an Didactic Dismantlement: A C…

On March 28, 2026, I shared the closing keynote for the graduate student-led Critical Themes conference in the Master of Art in Media Studies program at The New School.

On March 25, 2026, Curry Hackett and I shared “Making Sense: Seven Movements” at the Cooper Union.

On March 13, 2026, I shared the annual “Friends of the Library” lecture — "Pointing at Clouds: Indexing, Searching, and Citing in an Age of AI Smog” — at the CUNY Grad Center’s Mina Rees Library Pointing at Clouds: Indexing, Searching, and Citing in an Age

On March 2, 2026, I shared "The Sustainability Stack: Cross-Scalar Design at the Library Field” with the Sustainable Design program at the University of Illinois

On February 19, 2026, I shared “Friends, Neighbors, and Artificial Agents: Campus Library Design in an Age of Tumult and Good Trouble” at Swarthmore College as they prepare for a renovation of their McCabe Library.

Spring 2026 Website Search engine optimization and generative artificial intelligence have progressively destroyed web search.

On February 12, 2026, I shared my work — particularly, how I resituated 25 years of academic teaching and research to a more public, networked orientation — as part of the NYU Integrated Media Design program’s Extraordinary series.

On January 28, 2026, I joined curators Noam Segal and Safa O’Keeffe to discuss “Synthetic Legacies” — “the traces that collaborations with organic, mineral, and synthetic systems leave behind, and how those traces might persist, erode, or be rewritten over

On December 10, 2025, I joined the doctoral students at TU Dresden’s Schaufler Lab, as part of their their Data<>Worlds series, to talk about the capaciousness of data across my decades of research

Philly’s got good alleys I have to give it credit: Philly didn’t beat around the bush.