About Me

I am interested in elusive things indistinct knowledge and incomplete worlds. I study architecture, design, immaterial forces like sound or electromagnetics, good and bad ways of living together in close proximities, and what it means to be wrong.

I am currently working as a postdoc on an ERC-funded project called Wavematters at Humboldt University in Berlin. In that project, I study sound, noise and electromagentics, and how those become objects of knowledge and how they do not become objects of knowledge. I am interested in how they generate contested public feelings. You can find our project website here: www.wavematters.eu. I have published several articles from this research on vibrations, spectres, confusions, listenings, noise maps, analogies, mistakes.

I have two other projects. One is related to nuisances in what some call the Anthropocene. There, I am interested in how nuisances are on the rise in the absence of environmental regulations and policies, and on their ambiguities as legal category and as public feeling or affect, and how their associated disputes provide means to study socialities around environmental issues. I have briefly written about this in an article also about noise and listening.

The second project is provisionally entitled, On Being Wrong: and other misadventures of thought. I am interested in what it means to be wrong, how do things and people become wrong, and what are the varieties of erroneous experience. Part of this is to detatch wrongdoing from doinggood, and error from truth: What other images of thought are there? This is to pick up on Gilles Deleuze’s brief inquiry into “misadventures of thought” in Difference and Repetition. __

I have also studied a building project. It ended up being a book called Variations of a Building. It’s about how objects are shared actions and is interested in the techniques of sharing in the act of creation. It is interested in how a world is put together and maintained for an object - like a building - to exist. __

Previously, I was a teaching fellow at the University of Edinburgh (ESALA) and a part-time lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the University of Manchester. I completed my PhD there. I received my undergraduate degree in Political Science and English Literautre at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), and a Masters of Arts in Theory & Criticism at the University of Western Ontario (Canada).