PUBLICATIONS

Thornton, P. (2025). Page Against The Machine: On the Poetics of AI Refusal. Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh

Thornton, P. (2023). Newspeak: Return of the Word Police. Surveillance & Society, 21(4), 506-510.

Thornton, P. (2023). ‘Data Resistance Through Public Art: Reclaiming Narratives In/Of the City’. In Currie, M., Knox, J., & Mcgregor, C. Data Justice and the Right to the City. Edinburgh University Press.

Medby, I. A., & Thornton, P. (2023). More than words: Geopolitics and language. Area, 55(1), 2-9.

Elsden, C., Chatting, D., Duggan, M., Dwyer, A. C., & Thornton, P. (2022). Zoom obscura: Counterfunctional design for video-conferencing. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-17).

Dwyer, A. C., Stevens, C., Muller, L. P., Cavelty, M. D., Coles-Kemp, L., & Thornton, P. (2022). What Can a Critical Cybersecurity Do?. International Political Sociology, 16(3)

Thornton, P. (2021). Disaster SEO. In SYSTEMS: USER or USED?. Science Gallery Dublin.

Thornton, P. (2021). ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud ethicist’, in Louise Amoore’s Cloud Ethics book review symposium, AAG Book Review

Terras, M., Coleman, S., Drost, Elsden, C., Helgason, I., Lechelt, Susan; Osborne, N., Panneels, I., Pegado, B., Schafer, B., Smyth, M., Thornton, P., Speed, C. (2021),The Value of Mass-Digitised Cultural Heritage Content in Creative Contexts’ Big Data & Society

Jackman, A., Squire, R., Bruun, J. & Thornton, P. (2020) ‘Unearthing feminist territory and terrain’. Political Geography.

Thornton, P. (2019) ‘Subprime Language & the Crash’, in Kitchin, R., Graham, M., Mattern, S. and Shaw, J., (Eds.). How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. London: Meatspace Press.

Thornton, P. (2019) ‘{POEM}.PY’, in Balaam, M. and Hansen, L. K. (eds), Wilful Technologies: Rage and resilience. Arhus Press.

Thornton, P. (2019) ‘Words as data: The vulnerability of language in an age of digital capitalism’, Crest Security Review (Spring/09), pp.8-9.

Thornton, P. (2018). A critique of linguistic capitalism: provocation/intervention. GeoHumanities, 4:2, pp. 417-437.

Thornton, P. (2018). Language Redux. In Anderson C. U. & Cox G. (eds). A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Research Values, Vol 7, Issue 1.

Thornton, P. (2017). Geographies of (con)text: language and structure in a digital age. Computational Culture, Issue 6.

Thornton, P. (2017).The Death of the Reader. Under the Influence Magazine, Spring/Summer, pp. 150-155.

Thornton, P. (2016). Diary of a plastic soldier (extracts). Critical Military Studies 2, no. 1-2. pp. 137-138.

Thornton, P. (2015). The meaning of light: seeing and being on the battlefield. cultural geographies 22, no. 4, pp. 567-583.

Thornton, P. (under review). Language in the age of algorithmic reproduction.

Thornton, P. & Danaher, J. (under review). On the (un)wisdom of algorithmic markets: governance by algorithmic price.

Thornton, P. & Morris, JH. (in preparation). Subprime language: the value of words in an age of digital capitalism.

Thornton, P. & Foley, J. (in preparation). Reverse engineering fictions: hacking Google AdWords with poetry.