I haven’t posted in a while; work and life has taken me in slightly different directions as I grapple with the potential of machine learning (less grapple, more flounder adjacent to people who know things). That research has not quite coalesced into coherency yet. So, what I’m posting today is probably the last bit of…

or: What is your boss actually reading? Part 1. This post is apropos of nothing much really, other than I did another list and I thought I would share it. There seems to be a continuing disconnect around so called “decolonisation” work in museums and heritage. Oftentimes, this divide is between those on the ground, without…

On Monday 5th July, 2021 I spoke at an event organised by the Centre for Design History at Brighton University and organised by Helen Mears, called Decolonising the Database. Shelley Angelie Saggar has written a report on the event on the University of Brighton’s Centre for Design History blog. The edited version of my talk…

Book lists, shelfies, reading groups were big news this time last year in response to widespread public (media?) acknowledgement of racism in the global north as overt, insidious, structural institutional and constant. But how many of the recommended texts were actually read and how many are still being read? Two threads on Twitter this week,…

This is the text of a talk I gave as part of the Doing the Work Programme, an online workshop series co-produced by Dr Ilaria Puri Purini at the Contemporary Art Society and Dr Anjalie Dalal-Clayton at the Decolonising Arts Institute (University of the Arts London). Kathleen Lawther chaired with incisive good judgement and care…

Last year around June (also the last time I posted on here), I think, Tehmina Goskar responded to an announcement about the project that I am currently working on (Provisional Semantics), with a little gentle probing and holding to account. I wrote back delighted to make contact, and since then there have been many interesting,…