Hi, I’m Paul
I’m a writer, creative technologist and systems thinker based in Perth, Western Australia.
I write stories and essays about things that matter to me like reclaiming agency, liberty, technology and the systems people create in order to live inside them. I’m also the co-founder and technical director of Open Studios.
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I write across fiction, politics, personal history and technology. These are the easiest ways into the archive.
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Crouching manhood, hidden Barbie
When I was a boy of six or seven, I lived in Gdynia, Poland. It was the summer of around 1995 when I made a friend at the playground behind…
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A Passing Summer
We worked so hard all winter,We worked so hard all spring,We worked like that so many years,And what did all that bring? Warm morning breeze, Saturday.Birds are singing, sun is…
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All Told
It started with shaming,Words, words, words,Intentions re-framing. And then came the blaming,Words, words, words,Boiling and torment attaining. Toil and sweat to make amends,Words, words, words,Then time came to take your…
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Hell-0, World
Hell-0, World O Morning Star, luminous river mouth of all the incandescent streams. Earth Mother enraged by Time, raineth hellfire from below unto the Sky. Nymph dancers of the ash,…
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About Me
I’m Paul, a writer and creative technologist based in Perth, Western Australia. I have spent more than two decades working with software, the web, systems and graphical applications.
I’m also the co-founder and technical director of Open Studios, an independent studio creating fictional worlds, open-source software and experimental values led R&D.
The subjects on this site vary, but they come from the same place: an interest in how people live inside systems, what those systems do to them and how people find ways through.