things i’ve written

For Current Obsession’s digital publishing platform, I wrote about embodiment, wearables, implants, and the “new flesh” as imagined through design. Read the full essay.
For FIBER, I wrote about how artists and thinkers reclaim wildness as a method for worldmaking against the flattening forces of optimisation, tracing the submerged and speculative imaginaries of Drexciya and Josèfa Ntjam. Read on Substack.
For CLOT, I spoke with Lucy Railton, Rebecca Salvadori, and Charlie Hope ahead of their performance of ‘Not A Word From Me’ at SEMIBREVE. Read the OpEd.
For Minimal Collective, I wrote about losing—and finding—oneself at Lost Festival. Read the essay.
In this essay, I respond to the rise of (gen)AI as a tool for co-creation. Read the essay.
An interview with visual artist Matthew Cosslett. Read on CLOT.
For Minimal Collective, I spoke with new media artist Maja Petrić about creatively deploying data-gathering technologies and the tension field this creates when working on themes like climate change and extractivism. Read the editorial.
An interview with experimental audiovisual act Cortical. Read on CLOT.
An essay about the interplay between algorithms and mysticism. Read on Cursor Mag.
Three-part series exploring queerness, visibility, and opacity.
The last instalment of SUCKMYCODE is an essay untangles the ways in which s*x(uality) becomes disassembled and reassembled to be made fit for representation within normative systems of relations and probes the contradictory double bind of visibility and concealment. Read Part Three on Gender*Language.
Three-part series exploring queerness, visibility, and opacity.
The second instalment of SUCKMYCODE is a conceptual exercise. Repurposing the tropes of text-based multi-user cyberworlds, Eleni Maragkou invokes an anti-language that invites you to disappear between boxes, between words, between lines of code.
This absurd text-based game hinges on the ability of language to convey and conjure worlds and on your willingness to momentarily suspend disbelief and enter this bare-bones universe with an open mind. Read Part Two on Gender *Language.
This “manifest-no” is Part One of SUCKMYCODE, a three-part exploration of (en/de-)coding “dirty words” and a way of processing and laying bare the contradictions of attempting to live a “transparent” life online. Drawing upon research into platformisation, meaning-making, transgression, and refusal, Eleni Maragkou articulates an exploratory appeal for a promiscuous theory of how to carve out a communal, queer life, on and off it. Read Part One on Gender*Language.
For the second ISSUE, I reflected on refusal as methodology. In print.
Interviewed the artist Philip Vermeulen ahead of his first solo exhibition, “Chasing the Dot.” Read the full interview on CLOT Magazine.
Remember when on the internet no one knew you were a dog? An essay about our fraught relationship with the internet, written for The Couch, the editorial and artistic platform of Het Hem.
Read the full essay on The Couch.
What is the role of a sanctuary? Can an object embody destruction and resistance? If the soil had a voice, what would it say? Luis Lecea Romera talks to FIBER about “Antecâmara", the installation he created in the context of the RE:SOURCE residency.
Read the full profile on Medium.
During the autumn of 2023, FIBER hosted Part 5 of its Reassemble Lab: Practising Permacomputing, a concept and a nascent community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology that is derived, among others, from permaculture principles. Graphic designer Niels Schrader, who presented his work during the Lab, spoke to FIBER about his work of mapping the topologies of data centres and the importance of materiality.
Read the full interview on Medium.
During the autumn of 2023, FIBER hosted Part 5 of its Reassemble Lab: Practising Permacomputing, a concept and a nascent community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology that is derived, among others, from permaculture principles. In this essay, Eleni Maragkou reflects on data anxiety, the role of metaphors in obfuscating material realities, and the loss (and reclamation) of agency.
Read the full essay on Medium.
A poem about data, written for The Couch, the editorial and artistic platform of Het Hem.
You can read the full poem on The Couch.
Ahead of the 2024 edition of FIBER x The Rest Is Noise, which will take place on Friday, January 5, I spoke with visual artist Theresa Baumgartner, who will adorn GEZEGEN, CEM’s experimental live performance, with her light scenography.
Read the full interview on Medium.
Read the full essay on the Institute of Network Cultures.
The contemporary alchemist talks to FIBER about her RE:SOURCE residency, working with matter, and the alternative imaginaries of energy.
Read the full interview on Medium.
An exploration of ‘Terugblik,’ the mesmerising audiovisual performance that made its dreamlike debut during FIBER Festival 2023.
Read the full interview on Medium.
Trans-led and queer-centric collectives are transforming Dutch club culture.
Read the full article on Polyester Zine.
What does it mean to act natural? Is there such a thing as a natural act, an act free from the rules and boundaries of society? And if so, could such an act take place in 'unnatural' spaces such as virtual environments? Artists Sebastiaan Smink and Axel Schoterman yearn to explore the possibilities of human expression in their experimental dance film A.N.V.A.
Read the full article on Next Nature.
From the mythical fountain of youth to the many anti-aging procedures available today: humans have dreamed of internal youth for a long time already. At lot of us perceive aging, illness and death as undesirable outcomes rather than an inherent part of our human experience. And with a rapidly developing technological world, the dream to control our own biology is swiftly becoming a reality. Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson thinks time travel will help us stay young and healthy forever. But not just any kind of time travel, mind you—Johnson will take his 45-year-old body back in time to its prime.
Read the full article on Next Nature.
Essay for inaugural ISSUE (print). Exploring the concept of Decolonisation, the first ISSUE brings together theory, fiction, gossip, food, and more. In this essay, I discuss queerness, desire, and the notion of refusal, as used by decolonisation scholars Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang.
Blog on the hack of alt-tech social media platform Parler. Read on the Institute of Network Cultures blog.
Forensic Architecture subvert the visual economies of state power and render legible the invisible.
Read the full essay on Soapbox.
Blog on the rise of conspiracy theory as a business model in the online gig economy. Read on the Institute of Network Cultures blog.
Read on Popaganda.

Essays, interviews, articles, poetry, critical inquiry—the gamut.