General papers
Research papers, journal articles and longer-form published essays on identity, systems, agency and futures.
System and Self: Where Futures Are Written
A paper proposing a method for perceiving and authoring futures in a world that increasingly feels pre-decided, through the relationship between structural systems and lived human agency.
ResearchGate preprint, 2026.
From Digital Identity to Me:chine: Notes on the Evolution of the Self in the Age of AI
This paper traces the evolution of my thinking on identity from the digital age to the AI age, showing how the self has become increasingly distributed, profiled and machine-legible, emerging into a synthesis: a self that is partly machinable and partly unmachinable.
ResearchGate, 2026.
The Sovereign Self
This essay introduces the Me:chine self: a model of personhood shaped by AI systems yet still capable of agency and sovereignty. It asks how freedom and selfhood can be preserved within machine-readable environments.
Chapter in Five Critical Essays on AI, 2025.
Disrupting Identity: Applying CLA to the Ongoing Digitization of the Self
An essay on how digital systems are reshaping identity from lived personhood into profiles, data and technical representation.
Journal of Futures Studies, 2023.
Conference Papers & Presentations
Papers and presentations delivered at conferences, events, symposiums and research gatherings.
Me:chine : Identity, Agency And The Unmachinable Self in the Age of AI
This paper introduces Me:chine as a framework for understanding identity, agency and the unmachinable dimensions of the self in the age of AI.
Delivered at EDAY Digital Business Conference, Amsterdam, 2 October 2025.
Database Selves: Identity In A World Where All Data Is Identity Data
This paper explores database selves: forms of identity reassembled as data so they can be read, compared and governed by technical systems. It argues that machine-readability is becoming a defining condition of selfhood in the AI-mediated world.
Delivered at TBD Conference under the theme “Eigenraum”, 3 April 2025.
The Age of AI: Artificial Identity
This paper examines how AI is reshaping identity by turning the self into something increasingly modelled, profiled and technically mediated. It argues that artificial identity is becoming a defining condition of life in the AI age.
Adapted from a keynote delivered for Bristol Creative Industries, 27 June 2024.
Identity: The Existential Issue of The Century
This paper argues that identity is becoming one of the defining existential issues of the 21st century, using Causal Layered Analysis to explore how identity is being reshaped under technological conditions.
Delivered at the XXV World Conference of the World Futures Studies Federation, Paris, 26 October 2023.
The Identity Century: Why Identity Will Define The 21st Century
This paper argues that identity will define the 21st century as the self becomes increasingly multiple, monetised and machinable under technological conditions.
Revised paper version of work first published publicly as Identity Century Is Here, 14 August 2023.
AI: The Death of The Artist?
This presentation text argues that generative AI does not signal the death of the artist, but a shift in the conditions of authorship, originality and creative practice.
Presentation delivered at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 29 June 2023.