• the disruption of finance 

• the necessity of digital sociology

• social media and the promise of never again being alone 

• the threats of financial elites 

• the threats of financial elites 

• the totally weird subculture of 1980s mortgage traders 

• the masters of the universe and their delusions

• the meaning of scrounging in conservative britain 

• post-democratic political culture: how good leaders go bad

• the post-democratic judicial system

• spotify’s ultra-creepy new privacy policy

• “drag coefficient”: the creepiest human resources concept ever?

• the social expectations of the super-rich

• the self-congratulation of digital elites 

• markets are a machine for destroying the ego

• pride and pleasure in acceleration 

• data fetishism and the elites of digital capitalism 

• the culture of the ‘working rich’

• digital capitalism, the great levelling and the moral agency of elites

• we are all equal before Google

• the moral discourse of the ‘reasonable technocrat’

• viral media and unionisation

• what to do when a political party you instinctively support shows nothing but contempt for the things you believe?

• The fiction future of faculty: an afternoon of sociological design fiction

• attribution in live tweeting

• the circular tendency in digital capitalism

• blogging as an outboard brain

• on digital distraction

• negative solidarity is here to stay: the ‘greedy’ tube workers

• reflections on preparing to finish a book

• who’s more popular on twitter? the UK’s top research universities or academic blogs and viral feeds?

• things I’ve been reading recently #11

• social media and academic freedom

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#19)

• the best of bezos: the vitriolic putdowns of the amazon ceo