Articles & Presentations

Chapters and Articles

“Food in the Shanghai Lockdown.” Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies. Volume 24, Issue 1

Abstract Infrastructure: Wireless Waves and Modern Chinese Thought. Urban Infrastructure: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from History and the Social Sciences. Edited by Rae Zimmerman; Jonathan Soffer and Joseph Heathcott. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2022.

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. 2021.

An Enchanted Modern: Urban Cultivation in Shanghai (co-authored with Francesca Tarrocco). 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. 2020.

Conversation with Mikkel Bindslev. Shanghai Frequencies. Sum: Journal for Contemporary Art Criticism and Theory, Edited by Mikkel Bindslev, no. 13, pp. 1869-1906. 2020.

China and the Wireless Wave. Audint Unsound: Undead. Urbanomic/MIT Press. 2019.

Shanghai. Street Food & the Modern Metropolis. Routledge Handbook of Food in Asia. Edited by Cecilia Leong Salobir. Routledge. 2019.

Shanghai Future Selections. Ethnofuturism. Edited by Avanessian, Armen and Mohan Moalami. Merve Verlag. 2018.

Moveable Feasts: Reflections on Shanghai’s Street Food. Food, Culture & Society, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 75-88. 2018.

The Shape Shifter: Dream Visions of the Additive Machine (co-authored with Suzanne Livingston). The 3D Additivist Cookbook. Edited by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke. Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam. 2017.

Street Life & Street Markets. Urban Change: Social Design - Art As Urban Innovation (Edition Angewandte). Birkhauser. 2016.

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. 2016.

Wireless Waves. Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 135–144. 2016.

Silicon Markets: Smart Hardware from The Streets (co-authored with Silvia Lindtner and David Li). The Good Life in Asia’s Digital 21st Century. Digital Asia Hub. Hong Kong. 2016.

Designed in Shenzhen: Shanzhai Manufacturing and Maker Entrepreneurs (co-authored with Silvia Lindtner and David Li). Aarhus Conference on Critical Alternatives. 2015.

Future Mutation: Technology, Shanzhai and the Evolution of Species (co-authored with Suzanne Livingston). Time Spiral Press. 2015. 

Raising Cosmopolitans (co-authored with James Farrer). Global Networks, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 141-160. 2014.

Shanzhai: China’s Collaborative Electronics Design System (co-authored with Silvia Lindtner and David Li). Atlantic. 2014.

Shanghai Gone: Book Review. China Historical Review. 2013.

The Great Wall of Education. Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast Changing Lives in a Fast Changing Land. Edited by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Angilee Shah. UC Press. 2011.

Globalization without World Order: Intellectual Property & its Discontents. Property. Territory. Globalization: Struggles Over Autonomy. Edited by William Coleman. UBC Press. 2011.

The Power of Spectacle. Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 81-95. 2011.

On the City’s Edge. Transit Labour, no. 2. 2010. 

Autonomy on the Market. Cultural Autonomy: Frictions & Connections. Edited by Petra Rethmann, Imre Szeman and William D. Coleman. UBC Press. 2010.

Milk and Modernity. China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance. Edited by Kate Merkel-Hess, Kenneth Pomeranz and Jeff Wasserstrom. Rowman & Littlefield. 2009. 

Newspaper & Magazine Articles

Critique of the Plague Rave. TECHNO Reader. July 22, 2021.

Neomodern Shanghai and the Art of Abstraction (co-authored with Nick Land). Flash Art. March-April 2016.

Shanghai's Urban Future. Hurst Blog. Sept 2014.

Tiger Moms: The Benefits of Eating Bitterness. Miller McCune. Feb 5, 2011. 

Shanghai: There’s New Life on the Bund. The Globe and Mail. April 27, 2010. 

Shanghai’s Coming Out Party. The Globalist. March 24, 2010.

Cities of the Future. China Beat. Sept 11, 2009.

‘Modernity 2.0.’ ‘Incensed.’ ‘Xuhui.’ ‘Hongkou.’ ‘Suzhou Creek’ Urbanatomy: Shanghai 2008. China Intercontinental Press. 2009.


Better City. Better Life. China Beat. August 25, 2009.

Milk Scandal Taints China’s Self-Image. The Nation. October 22, 2008. 

Aged to Perfection. En Route. October 28, 2008.

Shaping the Future. Air Macau. April 2008.

Street Map: Anfu Lu. Air Macau. March 2008.

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. Feb 8, 2006.

Outsourcing Q & A. Chartered Financial Analyst. March 2006.

Shanghai the Becoming Thing: Believe the Hype? Asia Times. Jan 7, 2006.

The Great Reverse Part 3. Yale Global Online. Sept 8, 2004. (syndicated in the International Herald Tribune and Singapore Strait Times)

Taxed by Democracy? Tech Central Station. June 2, 2004.

Restoring Urban Memories (co-authored with Nick Land). Shanghai Star. March 11, 2004. 

Unnatural Experiences (co-authored with Nick Land). Shanghai Star. March 8, 2004.

Lectures, Panels & Presentations

Techno-culture: Wireless Media Cosmology in China. Chronus Art Center & Conversazione. May 2021.

Wave Machines. Sinofuturities & Automation. Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence & Speculative Computation. December 2020.

The Cultivated City: Mou Zongsan and the Abstract Infrastructure of Wireless Waves. Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. University of Irvine. November 2019.

Mou Zongsan and AI Ethics. Workshop on AI & Culture. NYU Shanghai. September 2019.

China and the Wireless Wave. Humanities Research Conference. Duke Kunshan University. September 2019.

Panel Discussant. City Food: Comparative Study of Street Vending Across Time and Place. November 2018.

Panel Discussant. Artificial Intelligence: What Does it Mean for NYU. President’s Global Council: Meeting in Beijing. October 2018.

Wireless Waves. Second Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure History and the Social Sciences. Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice Italy. June 2018.

Future Mutations. New Normal. Strelka Institute. April 2018.

Wireless Waves & New Confucian Thought. Research Seminar Series of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. University of Michigan. April 2018.

Sinofuturism: A Screening & Panel Discussion with Steve Goodman & Lawrence Lek. All. Shanghai. November 2017.

Time Waves. Extinction Narratives: Challenges and Opportunities. Duke Kunshan. September 2017.

Wireless Waves. Reset Modernity! A Shanghai Perspective (with Bruno Latour). Himalayas Museum. May 2017.

Moveable Feasts. City Food Conference. New York. April 2017.

Deep Mapping Shanghai's Street Food. City Food Symposium. New York. April 2017.

Digital Mapping in the Classroom. Mapping Cultures. New York. April 2017.

Panel Discussant. Getting to Know Your Inner Cyborg. OCAT Shanghai. April 2017. 

Moveable Feasts. Digital Humanities Asia Resident. Stanford. February 2017.

'Street Food in the 21st Century City.' Sophia University. Tokyo  & DHAsia Stanford University. Winter 2017.

Panel Discussant. Thinking with Lu Yang. NYU Shanghai. December 2016. 

Panel Discussant. AI in Asia. Digital Asia Hub. Hong Kong. November 2016.

Copycat Electronics in 21st century China. Duke Kunshan Faculty Colloquium. September 2016.

Panel Discussant: Opening Panel. Shanghai Project. Minsheng Art Museum. September 2016.

Wave Machines. Consciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era. Masters Academy at Shanghai Institute of Visual Art. November 2015.

Cultivated City (with Francesca Tarocco). Philosophy of the City. Hong Kong. November 2015.

Street Life & Street Markets & Panel Discussant. International Symposium. Social Design: Urban Change. University of Applied Arts. Vienna. October 2015.

Panel Discussant: Symposium. Chinese Science Fiction and the Post Human. Duke Kunshan University. September 2015.

Shanghai Future. Fora Lecture: UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative. June 2015.

The Road versus the Street. Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club. May 2015.

Wireless Waves. School of International Communications. University of Nottingham Ningbo. March 2015.

Moveable Feasts. Food in the Global Asian City. National University of Singapore. April 2015.

Panel Discussant: Open Innovation Panel. Shenzhen Industrial Design Fair. Fall 2014.

Time Waves. Imagining the Future: The Utopian. The Dystopian and The Posthuman. Institute of Cinematic Arts. Shanghai Theatre Academy. November 2014.

Cultivation and the Nature of Cities (with Francesca Tarocco). Ecologies of Urbanism in Asia II: Cities. Towns and Places of Nature. Hong Kong Institute of Humanities. Hong Kong University. June 2014.

Shanghai Future. Shanghai Literary Festival. March 2014.

Shadow Markets. CIEE Faculty Seminar. East China Normal University. June 2013.

Neomodern Metropolis. Global Studies Symposium. Shantou University. December 2012.

Shanzhai Style. New Media and Cultural Transformation. Shanghai University. December 2012.

What Time is the Future? A public conversation with Mathieu Borysevicz. Hu Xiangcheng. Francesca Tarocco and Nick Land. Just What is it about the End of the World that Makes it so Appealing? Minsheng Museum. Shanghai. December 2012.

Back Alley Banking. CIEE Faculty Seminar. East China Normal University. June 2012.

Shanghai: The Creative Metropolis? Ret/Prospectives of Hong Kong and Delta Cities in a Global Shadow. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. June 2012.

Shanghai's Retrofuturism. Royal Asiatic Society. Shanghai. December 2011.

Gothic Futurism. Shanghai Palimpsest: Shadows of the Past in the 21st Century. October 2011.

Shanghai’s New Modernity. San Diego State University: Shanghai Program. June 2010.

On the City’s Edge. Transit Labour. September 2010.

Creating the Future. China Study Group. February 2010.

Shanghai. City of Tomorrow? Urban Research Lab. December 2009.

Outsourcing & the India Experience (with Mr Ding Haijiao, Vice Chief of the Luwan District). Luwan District Government. December 2007.

Split Second Timing (with Ccru). Dutch Electronic Arts Festival. Rotterdam. NL. November 2000.

Lemurian Hyperstition. Syzygy. Beaconsfield (Vauxhall. London). U.K. 1999.