I am a Lecturer in Human 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.

I am a cultural-digital geographer and film maker who investigates theories, politics, and practices of refusal, and who is directly inspired by critical theory, pessimist philosophies, and radical politics. More specifically, I examine how a politics of refusal shifts in relation to changing technological and urban conditions, and how, in turn, such negative politics push us to rethink geographical understandings of power, affect, and the human.

My book ‘Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine’ - a political-theoretical history of technological refusal - is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press. 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 human, cultural and urban geographies, with a specialist focus on geographical theory, digital technologies, affect, cities and creative methods at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I also help run field trips, supervise students and more.