Hello, and thanks for visiting my website. I’m the English author of the books Unspeak (2006), about contemporary political language (shortlisted for the 2006 Index on Censorship T.R. Fyvel Award), and Trigger Happy (2000), about the aesthetics of videogames, as well as a composer of music for documentaries and short films, including the award-winning EVOL.

I’ve also written very many articles, mainly on books, music and other cultural matters, for the Guardian, the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement and so on, of which a few hundred can be read here.

I’ve appeared at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Bath and Edinburgh Literary Festivals, the Rotterdam Film Festival, and GameHotel, as well as on BBC television, BBC radio, NPR, ABC radio, and other media outlets. You can listen to and watch some of those spots here.

The weblog here gets updated with published pieces, bits of music, and web-only essays, often on the interface of technology and culture — eg, Goodbye, Cruel Word. New posts appear with a frequency best described as slack and unpredictable, but luckily the internets provide a marvellous thing called an RSS feed which you can subscribe to and then forget about: here’s mine.

If you have a request or suggestion, go ahead and send me an email. Enjoy your visit!