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.

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.