Chapters & Articles
2025
“Introduction,” “Cultivating Intelligence: AI Ethics & Mou Zongsan, “Sinofuturism & AI.” Machine Decision is Not Final: China and the History and Future of AI, co-edited with Benjamin Bratton and Bogna Konior, Urbanomic/MIT Press.
"Telos Project" as Iris Carver. Hemispherical Stacks. Antikythera Journal. MIT Press.
*Wireless China: A Philosophy of Waves. Not.Nero Editions.
2024
"Food in the Shanghai Lockdown." Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies. Volume 24, Issue 1, Spring.
2022
"Abstract Infrastructure: Wireless Waves and Modern Chinese Thought." In *Urban Infrastructure: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from History and the Social Sciences*. Edited by Rae Zimmerman, Jonathan Soffer and Joseph Heathcott. University of Pittsburgh Press.
2021
"QR codes and the Sentient City." *Constructing Spaces through Practices, Bodies, and Literature: Special Issue of Studia Neophilologica*. Edited by N. Katherine Hayles and Sofia Ahlberg.
"Critique of the Plague Rave." TECHNO Reader. July 22,
2020
"An Enchanted Modern: Urban Cultivation in Shanghai" (co-authored with Francesca Tarocco). Urban Poetics and Politics in Asia: Special Issue of International Quarterly for Asian Studies. Edited by Patrick Heinrich, Francesca Tarocco, Daniele Brombal, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 223-242.
"Conversation with Mikkel Bindslev." *Shanghai Frequencies. Sum: Journal for Contemporary Art Criticism and Theory. Edited by Mikkel Bindslev, no. 13, pp. 1869-1906.
2019
"China and the Wireless Wave." In Audint Unsound: Undead. Urbanomic/MIT Press.
"Shanghai. Street Food & the Modern Metropolis." In Routledge Handbook of Food in Asia. Edited by Cecilia Leong Salobir. Routledge.
2018
"Shanghai Future Selections." In *Ethnofuturism*. Edited by Armen Avanessian and Mohan Moalami. Merve Verlag.
"Moveable Feasts: Reflections on Shanghai's Street Food." Food, Culture & Society, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 75-88.
2017
"The Shape Shifter: Dream Visions of the Additive Machine" (co-authored with Suzanne Livingston). In The 3D Additivist Cookbook. Edited by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke. Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.
2016
"Street Life & Street Markets." In *Urban Change: Social Design - Art As Urban Innovation (Edition Angewandte)*. Birkhauser.
"The Future Arrives Early in Palo Alto (but when it's high noon there, it's already tomorrow in Asia). A Conversation about Science Fiction and Reimagining Histories of Science and Technology" (co-authored with Jeff Wasserstrom, Kavita Philip and Anil Menon). BJHS Themes: Intersections: Science and Technology in Twentieth Century China and India. Edited by Jahnavi Phalkey and Tong Lam. Cambridge University Press.
"Wireless Waves." *Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 135–144.
"Silicon Markets: Smart Hardware from The Streets" (co-authored with Silvia Lindtner and David Li). In The Good Life in Asia's Digital 21st Century. Digital Asia Hub. Hong Kong.
"Neomodern Shanghai and the Art of Abstraction" (co-authored with Nick Land). Flash Art. March-April 2016.
2015
"Designed in Shenzhen: Shanzhai Manufacturing and Maker Entrepreneurs" (co-authored with Silvia Lindtner and David Li). Aarhus Conference on Critical Alternatives.
*Future Mutation: Technology, Shanzhai and the Evolution of Species* (co-authored with Suzanne Livingston). Time Spiral Press.
2014
"Raising Cosmopolitans" (co-authored with James Farrer). *Global Networks*, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 141-160.
"Shanzhai: China's Collaborative Electronics Design System" (co-authored with Silvia Lindtner and David Li). Atlantic. May 18.
"Shanghai's Urban Future." Hurst Blog. September.
2013
"Shanghai Gone: Book Review." China Historical Review.
2011
"The Great Wall of Education." In Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast Changing Lives in a Fast Changing Land. Edited by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Angilee Shah. UC Press.
"Globalization without World Order: Intellectual Property & its Discontents." In Property. Territory. Globalization: Struggles Over Autonomy. Edited by William Coleman. UBC Press.
"The Power of Spectacle." Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 81-95.
"Tiger Moms: The Benefits of Eating Bitterness." Miller McCune. February 5,
2010
"On the City's Edge." Transit Labour, no. 2.
"Autonomy on the Market." In Cultural Autonomy: Frictions & Connections. Edited by Petra Rethmann, Imre Szeman and William D. Coleman. UBC Press.
"Shanghai: There's New Life on the Bund." The Globe and Mail. April 27,
"Shanghai's Coming Out Party." The Globalist. March 24, 2010.
2009
"Milk and Modernity." In China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance. Edited by Kate Merkel-Hess, Kenneth Pomeranz and Jeff Wasserstrom. Rowman & Littlefield.
"Cities of the Future." China Beat. September 11, 2009.
"Modernity 2.0," "Incensed," "Xuhui," "Hongkou," "Suzhou Creek." In Urbanatomy: Shanghai 2008. China Intercontinental Press.
"Better City. Better Life." China Beat. August 25, 2009.
2008
"Milk Scandal Taints China's Self-Image." The Nation. October 22, 2008.
"Aged to Perfection." En Route. October 28.
"Shaping the Future." Air Macau. April.
"Street Map: Anfu Lu." Air Macau. March.
"China Vs. America? Learning Strategies in the 21st Century (Part 1 & 2)." *The Globalist*. April 19 & 20,
2006
"China's Hardware. India's Software." Asia Times. February 8.
"Outsourcing Q & A." Chartered Financial Analyst. March.
"Shanghai the Becoming Thing: Believe the Hype?" Asia Times. January 7.
2004
"The Great Reverse Part 3." *Yale Global Online. September 8, (syndicated in the International Herald Tribune and Singapore Strait Times)
"Taxed by Democracy?" Tech Central Station. June 2, .
"Restoring Urban Memories" (co-authored with Nick Land). Shanghai Star. March 11.
"Unnatural Experiences" (co-authored with Nick Land). Shanghai Star. March 8.