John J. May

Select Publications:

in progress:

(2012, forthcoming) "If We Wake Up To Find We Have Been Too Well-Trained: A Conversation Between John Harwood and John J. May," in Architecture is All Over, Esther Choi and Marrikka Trotter, eds. (Cambridge:MIT Press)

in print:

(2011, forthcoming) “The Logic of the Managerial Surface,” Praxis Journal of Writing + Building, No. 13 “Eco-logics.”

(2011) "Infrastructuralism…or, the Pathology of the Negative Externality,” Quaderns, No. 262 “Productive Landscapes,” pp. 6-9.

(2010) “Against Sustainability,” ID Magazine (guest editorial), Vol. 57, No. 1,  January/February, pp. 20-21.

(2010) “The Becoming–Energetic of Landscape,” New Geographies, No. 2 “Landscapes of Energy,” pp. 23-32. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

(2008) “Preliminary Notes on the Historical Emergence of Statistical-Mechanical Geographic Vision,” Perspecta: The Yale Journal of Architecture, No. 40   “Monster,” pp. 42-53.

(2008) Hwang, Irene and Mario Ballesteros, eds. “Technology, Ecology, and Urbanism: An Interview with John May,” in Verb: Crisis. Barcelona: Actar.

(2008) “Bringing Back a Fresh Kill; A Dream of Territorial Resuscitation,” in Verb: Crisis. Irene Hwang and Mario Ballesteros, eds. Barcelona: Actar.

(2006) “…such as that Elegant Blend of Philosophy and Hardware: Preface to a History of Geographical Autonomy,” Thresholds: The Massachusetts Institute of  Technology (MIT) Journal of Art, Architecture, and Media Culture, No. 31 “Ephemera,” pp. 8-15.