What do you do?
I’m manifesting a future where I expose the hidden machinery of power through cultural theory and criticism.
My forthcoming book introduces "spectral capitalism"—a framework revealing why we fundamentally misrecognize our true economic rivals. My essay, "Exiled in Austin, TX," in the London-based The Break-Down journal, offers a preview of this theoretical approach (more below the Daniel Johnston mural I wrote about).
When not developing cultural criticism for The Austin Chronicle, I help select clients translate complex ideas into strategic copywriting that cuts through intellectual noise and connects with discerning audiences. In my daily life, I serve as Senior Editor at Atmosphere TV, where I shape narratives that reach millions of viewers.
My essay "Exiled in Austin, TX" in The BREAK—DOWN functions as a concentrated preview of my forthcoming book's core concept: spectral capitalism. Using Austin as a case study, I examine how racial hierarchies persist through sophisticated mechanisms that place Black communities in a form of "temporal exile" – existing outside the city's progression of time through deliberately engineered environmental injustice. What begins in this essay as an exploration of heat disparities, infrastructural neglect, and environmental racism expands in my book to reveal a comprehensive framework explaining why we fundamentally misrecognize our true economic rivals. The journal's focus on capitalism, nature, and climate provides the perfect context to introduce readers to this theory that illuminates how racial hierarchy maintains itself by appearing natural rather than constructed – a mechanism I trace from Austin's 1928 Master Plan through today's climate policies under renewed conservative governance.