- Toward a Comparative Futurism, catalogue essay, Cosmological Arrows (Curated by Caroline Elgh Klingborg), Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (August 2019). #timetravel
- National Identity Meets Digital Nativity, a profile on Shabahang Tayyari, Canvas Magazine, no. 15, vol. 14 (Jul/Aug 2019).
- On the Installation Shots of Contemporary Art Exhibitions, catalogue essay, thing, aura, metadata. A poem on making. (Curated by Seda Yildiz), Parallel Platform, PhotoIreland Festival, PhotoIreland Foundation, Dublin (July 2019).
- review: Shilpa Gupta and Zarina at Ishara Art Foundation, art–agenda (June 2019).
- On the Works of Morteza Ahmadvand, Ghazaleh Hedayat, and Sahand Hesamiyan, catalogue essays, The Spark Is You (Curated by Ziba Ardalan), Parasol Unit, London and Venice (May 2019).
- CAD Conspiracy: Pattern Recognition in Contemporary Art (with Bahar Noorizadeh and Chris Tegho), Generative Adversarial Network, video-essay installation, lecture performance, panel discussion, screening, etc. (2019–ongoing).
- Ethics of Time Travel: Toward a Comparative Futurism, lecture, Art After Culture, “The Twilight Symposium: Science Fiction Inside Colonialism,” e-flux journal +
La Colonie, Paris (February 2019). #timetravel - Peer Pressuring the Past, Future-Fictioning the Present, brochure text, Bahar Noorizadeh: Governing Machines and the Future of Futures, Mercer Union, Toronto (October 2018).
- “What Was Gulf Futurism” (with Ahamd Makia), in ZIGG: Superficial (October 2018). #timetravel
- 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).
- A Butterfly Effect Across the Chronosphere, lecture, Armen Avanessian & Enemies #30: Ethnofuturisms, Roter Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin (September 2018). #timetravel
- Ethnofuturismen, co-edited with Armen Avanessian (Berlin: Merve Verlag, 2018). #timetravel
- The Politics of Surplus: An Affirmative Strategy of Resistance, summative essay for MA special subject Geopoetics, Goldsmiths, University of London (2016–2017).
- The Double and Time: Chronopolitics and Queer Futurity in the Circuits of Dead Ringers, MRes Curatorial/Knowledge dissertation, Goldsmiths, University of London (September 2017).
- Instrumental Xenotation, blog post (September 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), 13–17.
- This Is the Sea, Isn’t It?, catalogue essay for This Is the Sea at artmonte-carlo, Monaco (April 2017).
- 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).
- Trans-Temporal Perspectives, PNYX, issue 24 (London: Two Press and Architectural Association, 2016).
- The Aesthetics of Afterlife, blog post (November 2016).
- August 3, 2016: After Pak Sheung-Chuen, blog post (August 2016).
- An Alternative Entry in Five Moves, blog post (June 2016).
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