I’m an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Department of Human Centred-Computing, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. I’m also an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society.

I study the political economy of information technology and risk governance with a focus on the insurance industry. My current project—funded by a Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council—focuses on critically studying the polycrisis of insurance insecurity and climate risk governance. I am especially interested in analysing the political economic and socio-technical systems that influence the construction of knowledge about climate risk and mediate the relationships between (re)insurance industry, risk modellers, local governments, and vulnerable communities.

Previously, my work on the political economy of the insurance technology market was supported by an ARC DECRA Fellowship (2022-2024). See these journal articles for an overview of the critical agenda and theoretical approach that motivates much of my research on insurtech.

My first book — Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World (MIT Press, 2020) — lays out how the pursuit of power and profit is being materialized through smart technologies that have infiltrated all of society. My second book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism (UC Press, 2025) — goes even deeper into demystifying the material relations that underlie these systems and showing why technological capitalism must be dismantled so we can build a better world, bit by bit. These two books are best paired together.

In addition to publishing work in a range of academic journals, I also regularly write and speak about the politics of technology in many major media outlets. All of that can be found on my CV. 

I also co-host a weekly podcast on technology and political economy: This Machine Kills. You can listen and subscribe anywhere fine podcasts are distributed.