I am a Research Fellow in Geography, with a background in media studies. I also pursue a creative practice focused on film-making and urban interventions. Before entering academia, I worked as an advertising strategist for a large advertising agency.

My research focuses on digital technologies, negative affects, and the politics of refusal, and is directly inspired by critical theory, pessimist philosophies, and radical politics.. My PhD thesis was an in-depth ethnography with subvertisers, and as a result, I often contribute to newspaper articles, magazines and TV shows on the topic of subvertising.

I am currently finishing my book ‘Techno-Negative: a History of Refusal’ (under contract with University of Minnesota Press) on the philosophical history of technological refusal. The book travels from ancient Greece - where we find the world’s first machine-breaker - via medieval techno-demonologists, to assaults on French computer servers in the 1980s to reveal a hidden history that revolves around a political struggle over who, or what, counts as human.

I teach on cultural and urban geographies, with a focus on digital technologies, affect, cities and creative methods at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I teach my own third year module titled ‘Hacking Space: City, Media, Affect’ which centres spatial theories of subversion and GeoHumanities methods. I also teach cultural geography modules, on field trips, supervise Master students and am a marker on essays and dissertations.