Pleased to announce this talk with @byrontau.bsky.social on his recent book "Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government is Creating a New American Surveillance State." You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/means-of-c...

"Just Evidence," the World Records volume that I edited with @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social and LaCharles Ward @blurrdblue.bsky.social, launches today! It asks: What does accountability look (and sound and feel) like? Read the intro here: worldrecordsjournal.org/just-evidence/

Pleased to share the introduction from this special issue! More articles to follow in the coming weeks! worldrecordsjournal.org/just-evidence/

"The US was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows that war is good for business. And many of its most powerful people want us to stop worrying about frivolities like ethics or ecology and love the bomb" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, and Andrew Williams look at open-source investigation and propose tactics to counter epistemic injustice aimed at fostering pluralistic, decentralised, and solidarity-based OSI practices. academic.oup.com/lril/article...

Our new issue of the London Review of International Law is out with articles by Tanja Aalberts, @ingovenzke.bsky.social, Gavin Sullivan, Wouter Werner, Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, Andrew Williams, and the Medellín Group. academic.oup.com/lril/issue/1...

New article that critiques dominant narratives in “media forensics," arguing for a decolonial reorientation grounded in Indigenous epistemologies. Examining the work of NRO, it calls for counter-hegemonic practices that challenge settler-colonial evidentiary regimes... csalateral.org/issue/14-1/f...

'Human rights OSI frequently privileges technoscientific and criminological modes of investigation over alternative methods of identifying or tracking violence and harm.'

Interesting new piece challenging some of the assumptions on OSI contributions to atrocity accountability, particularly relating to the privileging of legal deference: there is a growing risk of excluding accounts of suffering in order to appease legal practices and norms - tinyurl.com/yc4v6y9z

"We were excited to have a panel accepted on the role of technology in genocide in Gaza at this year’s Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) conference in Brussels. However, CPDP then requested that Access Now & others remove the word “genocide” from panel titles & descriptions. We declined."

This event is coming up next week! With Mark Griffiths (@casesofyou.bsky.social) and Kali Rubaii. You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-moder...

A new co-authored piece that critically examines open-source investigation’s increasing reliance on—and deference to—the law. Written with Sasha Crawford-Holland and Andrew Williams. doi.org/10.1093/lril...

Those exploring the environmental consequences of conflicts throughout their lifecycle may well be interested in this event on 29 May.

Pleased to share details for this forthcoming event at the Emergent Nonfiction Lab. You can register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-moder...

Over the course of the summer, pieces from the forthcoming issue of World Records, titled "Just Evidence," co-edited by LaCharles Ward, Sasha Crawford-Holland, and myself, will be released. The full issue with introduction will be available late summer! worldrecordsjournal.org/category/vol...

Third piece from World Records Vol 9! Yasmina Price examines how Afro-diasporic artists use counterforensics—embodied, multisensory practices—to challenge colonial archives and reclaim black memory beyond the limits of evidence, law, and visual authority worldrecordsjournal.org/tongueless-w...

Second preview piece from the forthcoming issue of World Records, co-edited by LaCharles Ward, Sasha Crawford-Holland, and myself. Brett Story asks "Can injustice be answered by catharsis? In other words, is catharsis.. itself just, and thus a right?" worldrecordsjournal.org/no-justice-n...

Had a great time presenting this paper, cowritten with Sireesh Gururaja and Lucy Suchman! Paper draft here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.17840

This talk was such a joy to do! If you'd like to read the paper, it's here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.17840. Thank you for having us, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social!

A recording of @davidthewid.bsky.social and @siree.sh's recent talk at the Emergent Nonfiction Lab. "Basic Research, Lethal Effects: Military AI Research Funding as Enlistment," co-authored with Lucy Suchman www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnJy...

Pleased to share a preview piece from the forthcoming issue of World Records, co-edited by LaCharles Ward, Sasha Crawford-Holland, and myself. Laliv Melamed and P. Rangan explore the work of Al-Haq’s Forensic Architecture Investigative (FAI) Unit: worldrecordsjournal.org/they-are-sho...

Forensic techniques have become a dominant form of artist-activist media practice. Running across the festival, Just Evidence, organised with World Records Journal, features screenings & events asking how these forensic practices can be reconciled to radical ends. opencitylondon.com/2025-festiva...