This project re-presents Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction through the stylistic framework of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style. By rewriting Benjamin’s argument in multiple everyday genres, it performs the very process Benjamin describes: repetition transforming meaning. Each restyling erodes the “aura” of the original text while generating new…

The Sealand chapter of Uncorporate Identity examines the Principality of Sealand as a case study in how statehood and identity can be constituted through external infrastructures rather than political or territorial fact. Situated on a disused sea fort, Sealand lacks formal recognition, governance, and territorial legitimacy, yet it presents itself as a sovereign state through…

St George’s Gardens is an unassuming park that sits at the crossroads of Greys Inn Road, Sidmouth Street, and Handel Street. It is in a constant state of flux; brisk walkers cut through it, dogs sniff their way around, birds and insects animate the air. It is also a cemetery. This duality unsettled me at…