• 📚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

• From gated communities to moated communities

• Off shore capital and the great inflation

• What will it mean when blogs are decades old?

• The Sociology of Escalation Effects

• Social media and the (im)possibility of tolerance as an epistemic virtue

• An accessible introduction to the (post-capitalist) future of scholarly publishing – Thursday afternoon in Cambridge

• Digital Futures? The #BSADigital Presidential Event

• Iain Sinclair on the self-importance of Cambridge

• The Sociology of Awkwardness: Being (very) human in a digital age

• Harvey Specter: a study in late modern sociopathy

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 3 – Data Futures

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 2 – Work Futures

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Session 1 – Youth Futures

• #BSADigital Live Blog: Introducing Digital Futures

• Engineer automaticity in digital capitalism: from Bauman’s gardening state to the synthetic biology corporation

• Repoliticising tech mythology

• Digital technology and facilitating corruption

• An industry for creating dynasties

• Margaret Archer’s social theory as a revulsion in the fact of empiricsm

• The Ontology of Software: From Batch Processing to Interactive Computing

• A masterclass in post-capitalist publishing with Gary Hall

• “They ruined the world”

• From political engagement to asset protection

• The collapse of the tech mythology

• CFP: Intersectional Automations

• The singular new risks of organisational IT projects

• The Vertigo of (Accelerated) Corruption

• How corruption makes history  

• The political economy of viral stars 

• My imposter syndrome

• Socialising children into digital agency: why it’s not the same as reading, writing and arithmetic

• Fake news as an endless game of epistemic whack-a-mole

• On dialogical pessimism 

• The ideas industry and funding the new right

• Is this what techno-fascism will look like?

• a DDoS attack on the human will  

• The unraveling of factfulness and the political ontology of representation

• Losing yourself in Westeros

• Taking distraction seriously as a political factor  

• The ideology of how ‘the world really is’

• Reconciling the psychoanalytical and the reflexive 

• Donald Trump as spectacle and fetish

• Outflanking platitudes #1: Looking Forwards and Backwards

• Education Beyond Dispute: the work of Stafford Beer for Teaching and Learning

• Stafford Beer, Reflexive Poise and Human Flourishing

• The worldly intellectualism of Stafford Beer

• Fascism and the liberal imagination

• The fragile crowd 

• The globalisation of critical theory is inseparable from its Americanization

• Developing platform literacy from the ground up can be a bulwark against corporate power

• Provincialising disruption

• The meaning of Jair Bolsonaro