Books
2023. Where Cloud is Ground: Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
Articles & essays
2023. “What is Environmental Media Studies So Far?” (co-authored with Patrick Brodie, Juliet Pinto and Anne Pasek), Journal of Environmental Media Studies 4(1): 3-8.
2023. “I Have No Proof, But…” American Anthropologist 125(3): 629-632.
2022. “Down to Earth: The Situated Materiality of Digital Media,” Journal of Environmental Media 2(2): 185-191.
2021. “The Mechanics of Sovereignty: Autonomy and Interdependence across Three Cables to Iceland,” American Anthropologist 123(3): 578-589.
2019. “Data Centers as Infrastructural In-Betweens: Expanding Connections and Enduring Marginalities in Iceland,” American Ethnologist 41(1): 75-88.
2019. “Emplacing Data Within Imperial Histories: Making Iceland Information’s ‘Natural’ Home,” Culture Machine 17: 1-12.
Book chapters
2022. “Data Center Energy Futures,” co-authored with Nathalie Ortar, A.R.E. Taylor, Julia Velkova, Patrick Brodie, Clément Marquet, Andrea Pollio and Liza Cirolia, in Energy Futures: Anthropocene Challenges, Emerging Technologies, and Everyday Life.
Edited collections
2023. “Fieldwork Confessionals” (co-authored with Chloe Ahmann, Ali Feser, Erin McFee and Amy Leia McLachlan), special section of American Anthropologist 125(3): 623-628.
2019. “Coastal Media,” special section of Synoptique Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies 6 (2).
2018. “Ruination, Remaking, Return: Critical Dialogues on Re-built Environments,” special section of City & Society 30 (3): 1-6.
2017. “Location and Dislocation: Mapping Geographies of Global Data” (co-edited with Mél Hogan), special issue of Imaginations Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 8 (2).
Online, invited & other work
2023. “Infrastructuring Inequality: Investigations of a Proposed Nickel Mine in Northern Minnesota,” Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Exchange, July 11.
2020. “Hacking Politics Itself,” hack.curio, May 20.
2017. “Vulnerability and Violence in Anthropology,” Allegra Lab: Anthropology, Art, Law, World, Oct 5.
2017. “Island in the Storm: Iceland and the Financial Crisis of 2008.” Review of E. Paul Durrenberger and Gísli Pálsson, eds. Gambling Debt: Iceland’s Rise and Fall in the Global Economy. Anthropology Book Forum.
2016. “Paranoid Reading, Writing and Research: Secrecy in the Field,” Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology, Mar 21.
2016. “The Self at Stake: Thinking Fieldwork and Sexual Violence,” Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology, Mar 16.
2014. “Data Havens of Iceland,” Interview with Adam Fish, Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology, Feb 6.