• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#1)

• University complaints by students top 20,000

• So someone actually made the perfect writing software….

• Computational Social Science Conference

• The International Asexuality conference – 28 June 2014, Toronto

• A Brief History of John Baldessari (narrated by Tom Waits)

• Apply now: Ninja Rockstar Content Associates needed A.S.A.P

• Computational Social Science Conference

• I just realised @soc_imagination is 4 years old tomorrow

• The sociology of Elliot Rodger

• CfP: Youth Activism and Resistance Conference

• CfP: Theorising Personal Medical Devices: New Perspectives

• Special Issue on ‘Gender, Sexuality and Political Economy

• Coming across old projects you completely forgot about

• Alan Watts on Empiricism

• Why Google’s driverless cars baffle me

• “With every racist pointed finger, I hear the goose steps getting closer”

• Computational Social Science Conference

• The rise of think tanks

• The seedy(ish) world of content marketing

• Concurrences in Postcolonial Research conference, Kalmar, Sweden, 20-23 August 2015

• Nigel Farage vs. Tony Blair

• So @soc_imagination is supposedly the 4th most popular Economics blog in the UK

• Computational Social Science Conference

• Valuing electronic music

• Margaret Archer interviewed in Times Higher Education

• Why do people blame their iPads for the fact they can’t concentrate in meetings?

• The Anthropology of Hipsters (and what it reveals about Anthropology)

• “You work your day doing something you’re not proud of, and you decompress at night with television and whisky”

• The violent rage of the ‘nice guy’

• The breaking of intellectual superstars

• “Stop closing down the debate!”: some thoughts on racism, free speech and UKIP

• What is it like to be a telephone fundraiser?

• Queer Futures – new research project

• How does someone come to identify as asexual?

• George Galloway: “I don’t want your fucking vote”

• The slow death of originality? Thoughts on the self-plagiarisation of Slavoj Žižek

• Next Critical Sexology Seminar – 30th May – “Sex Critical Approaches to Pornography”

• Akello Stone on Visual Sociology

• Valuing Electronic Music

• The six challenges social media poses for social researchers

• The Impact Agenda and the Good (Academic) Life

• No, @tvlicensing, I still don’t own a TV. Would you please leave me alone?

• Buzzfeed and the “the acceleration of the temporal rhythm of late capitalist visual culture”

• Warwick University Ltd Conference (not this Friday but soon)

• Racism and Digital Communication and Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: 2 events at @SocioWarwick 11th June

• Call for Artwork RGS-IBG 2014: Geographies of Co-Production in the Arts

• Academics using kickstarter

• Power in a World of Becoming, Process, Entanglement & Attachment – Programme Announced – June 2-3 (please circulate)

• 31 things the current UK government have privatised or want to privatise

• CIA’s ‘Facebook’ Program Dramatically Cut Agency’s Costs

• The details of the Fourth Cultural Political Economy Workshop