Essays & Reviews

Visionary or Woo Woo?, New York Review of Architecture, 2023

On MoMA’s Emerging Ecologies and the hippie-shit architecture of the 1970s.

The War on Carbon, MoMA Magazine, 2023

On the carbon footprint of energy-efficient design.

It Only Gets Worse, The Nation, 2023

On Jake Bittle’s The Great Displacement and the little-noticed fact that climate migration is already happening all across the United States.

Make It Less Bad, New York Review of Architecture, 2023

On the construction industry and how to reform its carbon-intensive status quo.

How to Profit from Climate Change, Public Books, 2022

On Eugene Linden’s Fire and Flood and why the insurance industry won’t save us from climate change.

Biospheric Politics, in Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere, edited by Caroline Jones and Natalie Bell, MIT Press, 2022

On Biosphere 2 and the limits of a politics built around self-organizing systems.

The Limits of Climate Change Litigation, The New York Review of Books, 2021

On lawsuits against fossil fuel companies for climate-related damages and why they keep failing.

Academic Articles

Gas Guzzling Gaia, or: A Prehistory of Climate Change Denialism, Critical Inquiry, 2021

On the oil and gas industry origins of the Gaia hypothesis and Gaia’s role in shaping the conditions of possibility for climate denialism.
*One of the most downloaded articles on Critical Inquiry in 2021

Of Astronauts and Algae: NASA and the Dream of Multispecies Spaceflight, Environmental Humanities, 2019

On a series of mid-century experiments that used algae to support human life during space travel and what they tell us about the historical relationship between ecology and systems theory.
*Winner of the 2019 History of Science Society prize for best article by an early career scholar

On Drawing Dead Fish, Environmental History, 2016

On artistic treatments of death and decay in nineteenth-century natural history illustrations.