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One Take: Sahej Rahal’s Bashinda , frieze , issue 216 (January 2021).
Notes on Class, Labor, and the Moving Image , catalogue essay, Not Working: Artistic Production and Matters of Class , Kunstverein München + Archive Books, Berlin (September 2020).
Toward a Comparative Futurism – Revised and Extended (December 2019).
Toward a Comparative Futurism , catalogue essay, Cosmological Arrows , Bonniers Konsthall + Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm (August 2019).
National Identity Meets Digital Nativity: On the Works of Shabahang Tayyari , Canvas Magazine, No. 15, vol. 14 (July 2019).
On the Installation Shots of Contemporary Art Exhibitions , catalogue essay, thing, aura, metadata. A poem on making. , The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, Dublin (July 2019).
Shilpa Gupta and Zarina at Ishara Art Foundation , review, art–agenda (June 2019).
On the Works of Morteza Ahmadvand, Ghazaleh Hedayat, and Sahand Hesamiyan , catalogue essays, The Spark Is You , Parasol Unit, London and Venice (May 2019).
CAD Conspiracy: Pattern Recognition in Contemporary Art (with Bahar Noorizadeh and Chris Tegho), video-essay installation with Generative Adversarial Networks (2019–ongoing).
Ethics of Time Travel: Toward a Comparative Futurism , talk, The Twilight Symposium: Science Fiction Inside Colonialism , e-flux journal + La Colonie , Paris (February 2019).
Peer Pressuring the Past, Future-Fictioning the Present: On the Films of Bahar Noorizadeh , brochure text, Governing Machines and the Future of Futures, Mercer Union, Toronto (October 2018).
“What Was Gulf Futurism” (with Ahamd Makia), in ZIGG: Superficial (October 2018).
A Butterfly Effect Across the Chronosphere , talk, Armen Avanessian & Enemies #30: Ethnofuturisms , Roter Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin (September 2018).
Ethnofuturisms (Berlin: Merve Verlag, 2018).
Notes From the Attic: Displaying the Material History of the CIA , Cabinet , issue 65 (Fall 2017–Winter 2018).
A Postcard from Tehran , Spike Art Quarterly , No. 57 (September 2018).
Tehran Behind the Screen , Domus , No. 1027 (September 2018).
Instrumental Xenotation , blog post (September 2017).
The Politics of Surplus: An Affirmative Strategy of Resistance , coursework, Goldsmiths, University of London (August 2017).
Objective Hyperreality vs. Hyperobjective Reality , blog post (July 2017).
Despotic Ophidiophobia , blog post (July 2017).
“Post-Capitalist Desire” , in The Fisher-Function (London: EGRESS, 2017).
This Is the Sea, Isn’t It? , catalogue essay, This Is the Sea, artmonte-carlo, Monaco (April 2017).
The Contract of Identification with Pain or A Child’s Instantaneous Desire for Aging , blog post (February 2017).
🚨💭 , blog post (January 2017).
The Exhibition Whisperer , Spike Art Quarterly, online (January 2017).
The Aesthetics of Afterlife , blog post (November 2016).
August 3, 2016: After Pak Sheung-Chuen , blog post (August 2016).
Trans-Temporal Perspectives , PNYX (an autonomous imprint of Architectural Association, London), issue 24 (June 2016).
An Alternative Entry in Five Moves , blog post (June 2016).