Michael Eby is a writer.

Email: michaeleby1[at]gmail[dot]com
Instagram: @michael.believe
Twitter: @michaeleby2020

2024
“Death of the Innovator?” New Left Review/Sidecar, February 2024.
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/death-of-the-innovator/

2023
“How Asset Managers Ruined Our Lives.” The Nation, October 2023.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/brett-christophers-asset-manager-review/
“Dumb Painting: A General Theory.” The Manhattan Art Journal #1, no. 1, Summer 2023.
http://19933.biz/journal.html
“Precise Reactions: Christian Marclay.” zweikommasieben #27, May 2023.
https://praesenseditionen.ch/products/zweikommasieben-27
“What Would Fassbinder Do? An Interview with Ian Penman.” Screen Slate, 8 May 2023.
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/what-would-fassbinder-do-interview-ian-penman

2022
“Italian Journey.” zweikommasieben #26, November 2022.
https://praesenseditionen.ch/products/zweikommasieben-26
“The Sophist Network.” The Nation, August 2022.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/internet-philosophy-justin-smith/
“Conexões matriciais: Perceptron enquanto diagrama.” Translated by Rafael Moscardi. Revista das Questões #15, no. 1, July 2022.
https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/dasquestoes/article/view/44106/33707
“OK Computer.” Artforum, March 2022.
https://www.artforum.com/books/how-digital-graphics-remade-the-material-world-88206

2021
“Mapping the Social in Theory and Practice.” Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2021.
https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/mapping-the-social-in-theory-and-practice/
“Agile Workplace.” New Left Review/Sidecar, August 2021.
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/agile-workplace
“Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America.” zweikommasieben #23, May 2021.
https://praesenseditionen.ch/products/zweikommasieben-23
“Head and Hand.” Tribune, March 2021.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/head-and-hand

2020
“Radio-Activity: Collective Approaches to Art and Politics.” zweikommasieben #22, November 2020.
https://praesenseditionen.ch/products/zweikommasieben-22
“Vegetable Beauty Pure of Exchange: Brandon Ndife.” Mousse #73, Fall 2020.
http://moussemagazine.it/brandon-ndife-michael-eby-2020/
“The Lost History of Socialism's DIY Computer.” Jacobin, August 2020.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/08/computer-yugoslavia-galaksija-voja-antonic
“Socialism's DIY Computer.” Tribune, July 2020.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/07/make-your-own-self-managed-socialist-microcomputer
“Graham Lambkin: Time Runs Through the Darkest Hour.” zweikommasieben #21, June 2020.
https://praesenseditionen.ch/products/zweikommasieben-21
“Vectors of Sense-Production: Deleuze, Hjelmslev, and Digital Ontogenesis.” LaDeleuziana #11, June 2020.
http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Eby.pdf
“Kernelled Connections: The Perceptron as Diagram.” &&&, April 2020.
https://tripleampersand.org/kernelled-connections-perceptron-diagram/
“Reification of the Milkmaid: Tenant of Culture.” Mousse #70, Winter 2020.
http://moussemagazine.it/tenant-of-culture-michael-eby-2020/

2019
“Constantina Zavitsanos: L&D Motel.” Brooklyn Rail, October 2019.
https://brooklynrail.org/2019/10/artseen/Constantina-Zavitsanos-LD-Motel
“The Queen of Cyberpunk: An Interview with Pat Cadigan.” Rhizome, July 12, 2019.
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2019/jul/12/pat-cadigan/
“Mandy El-Sayegh: Cite Your Sources.” Brooklyn Rail, June 2019.
https://brooklynrail.org/2019/06/artseen/Mandy-El-Sayegh-Cite-Your-Sources-CHISENHALE-GALLERY-APRIL-12-JUNE-9-2019
“The (Anti-)Social Life of Things: Cameron Rowland.” Mousse #68, Summer 2019.
http://moussemagazine.it/cameron-rowland-michael-eby-2019/
“Lawrence Lek: AIDOL 爱道.” Brooklyn Rail, May 2019.
https://brooklynrail.org/2019/05/artseen/Lawrence-Lek-AIDOL
“Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement.” Brooklyn Rail, May 2019.
https://brooklynrail.org/2019/05/artseen/Haegue-Yang-Tracing-Movement
“Libita Clayton: Quantum Ghost.” Brooklyn Rail, March 2019.
https://brooklynrail.org/2019/03/artseen/Libita-Clayton-Quantum-Ghost/

2018
“Simon Sellars’s Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe.” Brooklyn Rail, November 2018.
https://brooklynrail.org/2018/11/books/Simon-SellarssApplied-Ballardianism-Memoir-from-a-Parallel-Universe/
“South” (film review). Screen Slate, featured September 18, 2018.
https://www.screenslate.com/features/937/
“What Blockchain Means for Contemporary Art.” Hyperallergic, May 11, 2018.
https://hyperallergic.com/440936/what-blockchain-means-for-contemporary-art/
“As You See” (film review). Screen Slate, featured April 15, 2018.
http://www.screenslate.com/features/784/

2017
“Lives of Performers” (film review). Screen Slate, featured July 21, 2017.
https://www.screenslate.com/features/511/
“Fat Girl” (film review). Screen Slate, featured May 25, 2017.
https://www.screenslate.com/features/455/
“The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images” (film review). Screen Slate, featured April 24, 2017.
https://www.screenslate.com/features/423/

Talks/Other
“Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form,” Interview. New Books Network. October 20, 2020.
https://newbooksnetwork.com/sianne-ngai-theory-of-the-gimmick-aesthetic-judgment-and-capitalist-form-harvard-up-2020/
“A Sad and Lonely Constellation: Navigating the Antinomies of Technological Hopes,” Panelist. Sponsored by the New Centre for Research & Practice. Macao, Milan, Italy. May 3, 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smYXQR789TA
“Language Learning for Artificial Agents,” Panelist. 2019 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence & the Simulation of Behaviour. University of Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom. April 16–18, 2019.
http://aisb2019.falmouthgamesacademy.com/proceedings/