The most useful thing a CV can do is invite others, past or future collaborators, to see themselves in lively possible relation to you and your work. If that sounds like an opening, maybe it is. Get in touch.

In this update, I’ve checked and reformatted 450+ entries across all tabs, doing my best to accurately track collaborators, co-conspirators, hosts, partners, funders, and documentation links. It’s detailed, focused work. If an entry concerns you and you can make it more accurate, please get in touch. Thanks to Mindy Seu for the CV formatting inspiration, and do check out her Cyberfeminism Index.

Why now?
We underestimated how much Furtherfield’s move from London to Suffolk would transform our lives and work. I’ve struggled to summarise our intentions and process in a neat sentence, and I won’t try here either. But I think the projects of the last few years are beginning to speak for themselves. They are part of an actively hopeful response to Earth Crisis and I’m excited to share them in context here. I’ve struggled to summarise our reasons and intentions in a neat sentence, and I won’t try here either. But I think the projects of the last few years are beginning to speak for themselves. They are part of an actively hopeful response to Earth Crisis and I’m excited to share them in context here.

As I dug around the net to check missing details, I discovered that the Library of Congress officially lists my occupation as “Recovering web utopian.” It felt like a miraculous personal joke played on me by the internet. It also crystallised something about the work logged in this CV.

Flames engulf the earth as I write – the horrifying, terrifying, unutterably sad, and shameful result of unaddressed breaches across every planetary boundary, driven by human activity as a coordinated death machine. In the mid-90s, I naïvely believed that the free, open-source, peer-to-peer cultures of the early net would lead to planetary scale cooperation for the common good. By the mid-2000s, I was cured of that techno-utopianism. To understand the future impact of technologies we should imagine what the most worlds most dangerous people will to do with our most powerful tools.

But hope still flickers. I can’t shake the belief that imaginative, curious, relational play, in the webs of life is where wisdom, medicine, purpose, and possibility flow. This is where we feel the relationship between changes in our locality and global systems, and our role within them. And this living web is the place and power for creating systems of readiness, care, and defence we need.