2011

• ‘Vibrant Accordion’ [architecture review], Steel Profile, no. 108, April 2011.
• Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis [book review], Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy, Issue 139, May 2011.
• ‘In Defence of the Virtual: A Short History of Ballardian Film Adaptations’ (2000 words), Vagant 2, May–August 2011.
• ‘Andrew Metcalf: BVN Critic-in-Residence‘, Architecture Australia, vol. 100 no. 4, July 2011.
• Articles written for Architectural Review Australia: Residential, no. 122, July/August 2011 (9,000 words):

  A Peripheral Moment/Wolfgang Sievers [two book reviews; 500 words];
  ‘Spatial Logic: Charles Holland‘ [interview; 2100 words];
  ‘Body Architecture: Lucy McRae‘ [interview; 2500 words];
  ‘ARM’s God Knows’ [exhibition review; 1000 words];
  ‘Urban Films at MIFF’ [film reviews; 1500 words];
  ‘Kooyong House‘ [architecture review; 1000 words].

• Articles written for Architectural Review Australia: The Resilient City, no. 123, Summer 2011/2012 [15,500 words]:

  ‘Editorial: The Resilient City‘ [800 words];
  Architectural Guide Tokyo/The Beach Beneath the Street/Utopie: Texts and Projects/Ghost Milk [four book reviews; 1000 words];
  ‘Visualising the City: Ash Keating and Dorian Farr on Speculative Art and Architecture in Christchurch’ [interview; 2100 words];
  ‘Ghosts in the Buildings: Rachel Armstrong on Living Architecture‘ [interview; 2500 words];
  ‘Vertical Movement: Sir Miles Warren on Rebuilding Christchurch‘ [interview; 3400 words];
  ‘Potential Sources of Harm/Action Required: the Regeneration of Christchurch‘ [essay; 3500 words];
  ‘Matt Chan – Scale Architecture‘ [profile; 1800 words].

• Co-author (with Andrew Bain, Sarah Baxter and Adam Skolnick) of Great Journeys (Footscray: Lonely Planet Publications, 2011). I wrote the Introduction (2000 words), plus 35 chapters (approx. 1500 words each):

  Alexander the Great: from Greece to Egypt | Amalfi Coast Road | The Amazon River | The Baltic Amber Road | Amelia Earhart: the Final Journey | Norwegian Fjords | Blue Train of South Africa | Copper Canyon Railway | Down the Mississippi to New Orleans | Walking the Great Wall of China | The Yangtze by Slow Boat | Istanbul to Cairo | Iceland’s Ring Road | Route 66 | Trans Siberian Railway | Patagonia Highway | Khyber Pass | The Hippy Trail: Istanbul to India | The Vikings: Scandinavia to the Mediterranean | Captain Cook in the Pacific | Che Guevara’s The Motorcycle Diaries | Eastern & Oriental Express | Incense Road of Antiquity | Italy’s Literary Landmarks | Marco Polo’s Exploration Route | North to South Europe: North Cape to Gibraltar | Around the World in 80 Days | The Odyssey | The Dakar Rally | Theroux in the Pacific | New Zealand’s Tranzcoastal Railway | Rio Grande River Road | The Royal Scotsman | Spice Route | Vasco de Gama

• ‘Afterword: Changed by the Climate‘ (3,284 words), in Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe, Andrew Milner, Simon Sellars and Verity Burgmann (eds), Melbourne, Arena Publications, 2011
• ‘Zones of Transit: Micronationalism in the Work of J.G. Ballard’ (7000 words), in J.G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions, Jeannette Baxter and Roland Wymer (eds), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

• ‘Beneath the West Gate Bridge’ [microfiction; 100 words], Icon, no. 80, February 2010.
• ‘Hiding in plain sight: Simon Sellars on recent Australian animation‘, Overland 198, Autumn 2010.
• ‘Postcards from the Edgelands (for Marion Shoard)‘, in Infrastructure as Architecture: Designing Composite Networks, Katrina Stoll & Scott Lloyd (eds), Berlin: Jovis, 2010.
• ‘Flesh dissolved in an acid of light: the b-movie as second sight‘, Continuum, Volume 24, Issue 5 October 2010.
• ‘Hakim Bey: Repopulating the Temporary Autonomous Zone‘, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Volume 4, Number 2, 2010, pp. 83-108.

• ‘Tohoku is Pure Poetry’, Straits Times, 4 January 2009.
• ‘Tricks and Treats‘ [review of Melbourne International Animation Festival], RealTime #92 Aug-Sept 2009, pg. 31.
• ‘Palau’s Archipelago: Lovely and Unique‘, Dynasty (China Airlines inflight magazine), August 2009.
• ‘The BLDG BLOG Book: Geoff Manaugh’s Hall of Mirrors‘ [review], Blueprint, 19 August 2009.
• ‘Editorial: Demanding the Impossible‘ (co-written with Matthew Ryan), Colloquy, no. 17, August 2009.
• ‘Extreme Possibilities: Mapping “the sea of time and space” in J.G. Ballard’s Pacific fictions‘, Colloquy, no. 17, August 2009, pp. 44-61.
• City Visions: The Work of Iain Sinclair/J.G. Ballard’s Surrealist Imagination: Spectacular Authorship [two book reviews], , Colloquy, no. 17, August 2009.
• ‘Stereoscopic Urbanism: JG Ballard and the Built Environment‘, Architectural Design, September-October 2009, pp. 82-7.
• ‘RealTime Archive Highlights: Animation‘, RealTime, September, 2009.
• ‘Foreword‘ [for the Greek edition of J.G. Ballard's autobiography Miracles of Life], Oxy, November 2009.
• ‘“Magisterial, Precise, Unsettling”: Simon Reynolds on J.G. Ballard‘, 032c, no. 18. Winter 2009/2010.2010.