• 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• The neoliberal social contract

• What is an essay?

• The pleasures which superstar professors have access too

• What noisily calls itself philosophy

• The Anthropological Shock

• Anti-Trumpism mirrored Trumpism

• Just the flu

• The anthropological shock of Covid-19

• Eventbrite mobilising users to lobby for government support

• Cosmopolitanism as class project

• Philosophical problems as existential problems: the difficulty of Nietzsche’s internal conversations

• The fragmentation of audiences is the norm, their centralisation is the exception

• What an exhausting strike this has been

• “Free speech” in the attention economy

• Post-neoliberal civics and the symmetry problem

• Neoliberalism is limping to its death: what comes next?

• The emerging contours of (alt)liberal anti-leftism

• The lack of normative guidance in the sharing economy

• The parallel between publishing and academia

• Digital Strategy for Learned Societies

• The politics of seeking a less clamorous place

• The challenge of post-neoliberal civics

• Transhumanism and Marxist

• From data-driven politics to weaponised social media

• Europe is lost

• The perpetual warfare of the populist president

• Inviting regulation once you’ve already won

• The immersive challenge of the hyperserial narrative

• The macro-economic costs of distraction

• How BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti literally discovered viralityx.

• The Transformation of Higher Education: Acceleration, Platformisation and Digitalisation

• The arms race of celebrity

• The problem of British towns

• Durkheim on bounding variety

• AOL as the first mass commercial social media

• When does an immersive video game become an addictive one?

• Wikibombing

• The quality of attention

• Durkheim on individualisation and the weakening of collective experience

• Durkheim on the origin of reflexivity

• Digital Anthropology, Digital Geography and Digital Sociology

• Thematic issue in Digital Capitalism

• Andrew Chadwick on Donald Trump’s social media engagement advantage

• Durkheim’s argument about social contagion is immensely relevant to contemporary discussions of ‘fake news’ and computational propaganda

• Fascism and the pleasures of joining in

• The widespread sense of homo distractus

• An Agenda for Platformisation Studies v1.1

• Why social media matters for academics

• Durkheim on neuropathy and the inability to settle into a stable life

• To what extent is political Twitter pointless?

• Do you edit an academic journal?

• Liberating ‘digital’ from ‘technology’