I’m a writer, public scholar, and fiction writer; I was senior editor at Salon.com before leaving to go freelance. Prior to Salon, I was editor-in-chief of The Bold Italic. You may have seen me in The Washington Post, Al-Jazeera, SFGate, on Doha Debates, Dissent, Jacobin, Salon, McSweeneys, AlterNet or Full-Stop, or heard me interviewed on a podcast like Future Left, Upstream, or The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow.

My first book, “A People’s History of Silicon Valley,” was released in late 2018. As you might imagine from the title, the book is a critical account of the tech industry’s effect on its global subjects, in terms of exploitation of labor, re-engineering of desires, and subversion of privacy.

I’ve written and reported extensively on Burning Man, the social ills of the tech industry, and the cultural messaging in blockbuster films, and often speak to these in interviews.

Are you interested in an interview or commentary from me? Let’s talk.