i. method / theory

embodied critique: postcritical, diasporic autotheory
a methodological essay proposing embodied critique as a diasporic practice of attentive, devotional, minoritarian world-building
time, and the silent machine
a lyric-critical meditation tracing how time, trust, and digital exhaust become the quiet architectures that govern us

the Interface of cringe: notes on post-interface ethics
on digital moral performance, proposing cringe as a post-algorithmic ethic of friction, vulnerability, and collective unpolish
canon, capital, cockroach
a narrative-theoretical essay tracing the migration of value—economic, cultural, and bodily—across immigrant banking systems in Chinatown, global capitalism, and kafka’s metamorphosis

the double helix city, unzipped
a speculative autotheoretical essay exploring urbanity, kinship, and architectures of intergenerational memory across New york’s chinatowns
a homage to all that
an essay about leaving new york, examining identity, belonging, and memory through the after-image of the city—from queer nightlife to familial inheritance
on grammar, and translation
an epistomological essay about moving to london, translation as estrangement, and re-learning the language of authorship through migration
dad, the physics of lifetime
a hybrid essay tracing grief, paternal love, and the physics of diasporic inheritance measured through gesture (cooking!)

ii. autotheory / life-text

iii. archive

sub(altar)n: an embodied archive for the Fuzhounese diaspora
a counter-archive: a site for mapping dispersal, for tracing the constellations of movement, memory, and secrecy that connect us across the world. The archive situates Fuzhounese migration since the 1980s within a broader ecology of post-Mao reform, transnational labor, and diasporic kinship. Drawing from history, art, economics, and Asian/American studies, it gathers materials—scholarship, story, and artifact—that invite readers to braid their own understanding.
Guided by the method of embodied critique, sub(altar)n treats the act of archiving itself as an ethical practice—one that transforms research into care, and documentation into devotion. It resists disembodied history by situating knowledge within lived experience, by reading through affect, proximity, and inheritance. In doing so, it reframes the archive not as repository but as organism—one that metabolizes loss into continuity, silence into texture, absence into relation.

Our/The drone that learns to ... martyr
A blistered/blackout poem confronting our complicity as we witness the ongoing, intentional, and systematic murder of Palestinians carried out by israel … and resist
i’m here too
A rave-poem on being here—alive, fractured, pulsing—inside the signal-swarm of UNFold, a queer rave in east london
hope/core/ritual (call/response)
A two-channel elegy where language pixelates body into code, embodying the echo we call “we”
I’semiotics
a fractal poem about the ‘I’ that must multiply—self-capitalise—to be seen

iv. conceptual poetics