Reading / Writing

Essays and articles

• On AI personhood (semi-finished draft, for Scheme magazine)
• Marlboro Men and Modern Myths: Chasing the Cowboy Ideal (Substack)
• How to Buy Honour and Build a City (Substack)

Academic publications

• Syco-Lingual (short paper; presented at IASEAI'26)
• Metanje in zlaganje kamnov na plaži Sava (Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva)
• Research included in Planning With Nature (Prince's Foundation, 2023)

Reading

An ongoing list of books I've particularly enjoyed.

Fiction

• The Magus, John Fowles
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Beach, Alex Garland
• Golden Age, Wang Xiaobo (and his essay “A Maverick Pig”)
• Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
• Unknown Male, Nicolás Obregón

Non-fiction

• The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore
• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
• Maintenance: Of Everything, Stewart Brand
• Breakneck, Dan Wang
• The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman
• Longevity Hubs, Joseph F. Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto
• Reinventing the Bazaar, John McMillan
• Trust Me, I'm Lying, Ryan Holiday
• Guns and Rain: Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe, David Lan
• Watching the English, Kate Fox
• Drug Use for Grown-Ups, Carl L. Hart
• PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story, Alexander and Ann Shulgin
• Mycelium Running, Paul Stamets
• Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom
• The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jon Ronson
• The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson

Books I particularly disliked

• Orbital, Samantha Harvey
• Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher