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Recent Publications

Under the soil, the peopleOnsite Review 29: Geology. An essay on geology and the claims of memory. May 2013.

Influence: Three and a Half Metaphors. An essay on literary influence. The Waste Books. 20 April 2013.

Every thing has its own silence. An essay on sound and silence, in Marseille and Paris. Onsite Review 28: Sound. Fall 2012. You can read a version of this essay just prior to the final tearsheet here.

Islands of the Imagination. A short letter on islands. Onsite Review 28: Sound. Fall 2012. It is available here as a PDF. 

On the road to Yei. A reportage on rubbish in Juba, Southern Sudan. Anthropology News. 15 October. You can read it here

Death in Field. A short story about photography, compulsion, and gesture. Hotel Amerika. Fall Edition 2012. Volume 10. Number 2.

A sketch for the tent of the future. An essay on Qadhafi, nomadism, and the history of the Libyan state. Read it in Onsite Review 27: Rural Urbanism. 5 May 2012.

On hunting. A meandering exploration of exile, detectives, and, obviously, hunters. Originally published at The Waste Books. 13 January 2012. Then published as a letter in Onsite Review 27: Rural Urbanism. 5 May 2012.

just stay put and keep quiet. An essay on the form of the camp. Originally published at The Waste Books. 13 January 2012. Then published as a letter in Onsite Review 27: Rural Urbanism. 5 May 2012.

No lines, no peace? On the borders of Abyei. An essay on notions of territory in Abyei, Sudan. Anthropology News. 21 February 2012.

Moral Conquest: visiting the Wellcome Collection. On dirt and science. Onsite 26: Dirt. Fall Issue 2011.

Burning the future. On rubbish in Juba. Onsite 26: Dirt. Fall Issue 2011.

Self is a form. A selection of aphorisms. Hotel Amerika. Volume 10. Number. 1. Fall Edition 2011.

Breaking the cycle of violence in Sudan. Comment piece on clashes in Jonglei. Guardian. 3 September 2011.

Creating Facts on the Ground: Conflict Dynamics in Abyei. Small Arms Survey. Working paper available here in English, and here in Arabic. 7 July 2011.

Khartoum a bloqué les accords de paix à Abyei. Comment piece on the situation in Abyei. La Croix. 17 June 2011.

Animal Cities, on urban planning in Juba. Onsite 25: Identity. Spring Issue. The magazine is available here.

When the War Began. Short story about the outbreak of war. Annalemma Magazine. 13 April 2011.

Sudan’s proxy war. Guardian. 8 April 2011.

How we train our cops to fear Islam. Washington Monthly. (with Meg Stalcup). Original is here. 3 March 2011.

A divided Sudan will test tribal tensions. Guardian. 7 January 2011.

 

Entries in Onsite (6)

Friday
Nov232012

Every thing has its own silence

(c) Giulio PetroccoBack in April 2012, the photographer Giulio Petrocco and I took a walk around Paris. He took pictures, and I thought about silence. The kind folks at Onsite Review have now published the result in Onsite 28: Sound. You can read the finished text in the magazine. You can also read a PDF of an earlier version of the article here.

Friday
Apr272012

A Sketch for the Tent of the Future

I have an essay in the new edition of the wonderful Canadian architecture magazine, Onsite Review. The essay is on Libyan history, the nomadism at the heart of Qadhafi's dreams of direct democracy, and different ways of thinking about the relationship between the urban the rural. There is a small taster just below the fold, and you can read the whole article here.

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Monday
Sep262011

New Onsite essays

I have two new essays in Onsite. A review of the exhibition on Dirt at the Wellcome Collection in London, and a reportage about rubbish in Juba, South Sudan.

Moral Conquest: visiting the Wellcome Collection. Onsite 26: Dirt. Fall Issue 2011.

Burning the futureOnsite 26: Dirt. Fall Issue 2011.

Tuesday
May312011

New article in Onsite

I have a short essay in Onsite, a beautifully put-together Canadian architectural review. My essay looks at urban planning in Juba, and is called...

Animal Cities. Onsite 25: Identity. Spring Issue. The magazine is available here.

Sunday
Dec052010

Onsite re:site

In Onsite 24:Migration, in which you can find my essay on city planning in Oakland, the editor included a small inset: re:site, composed of short letters responding to articles in Onsite 23. I wrote two texts for re:site, and you can read them here (pp.6-9).

Sunday
Dec052010

Onsite Essay: Between the Red Lines

I have an essay on the history of city planning in Oakland, CA, out in the new issue of Onsite Review, available here