• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• BSA Conference Event – C Wright Mills, 50 Years On

• 2012 Call for Papers about Asexuality

• The cultural significance of asexuality

• The State Lottery

• Sexual Minority Research in the New Millennium

• Social Class and Educational Aspiration

• And I know I’m not the one who is habitually optimistic. But I’m the one who’s got the microphone here so just remember this…

• Marginal Cartographies: Researching Beyond Borders

• Interrogating Sex and Gender Categories: an Asexual Case Study

• And the ‘original’….

• I read some Marx and I liked it…

• Are you interested in being a Postgraduate Forum Convenor for the British Sociological Association?

• TEDx Warwick: Home Grown Ideas (with me, @lukerobertmason and others)

• Hip-Hop or Shakespeare? Akala at TEDx

• Master Tasks for Intellectuals

• Nick Crossley on Relational Sociology

• 11 random thoughts on asexuality studies, to be written up properly at a later date…

• Some thoughts on socialization and personhood

• Margaret Archer – Socialization as reflexive engagement

• Are you interested in being a Postgraduate Forum Convenor for the British Sociological Association?

• Different uses which PhD students can make of Twitter. If anyone has any they can add to the list, it would be really appreciated!

• There’s more to life than sex? How sexuality is changing and why it matters

• The foundation of relational sociology

• Hey students, are you finding it difficult to manage your money?

• Do ‘prestigious’ journals make academics lazy? An unlikely parallel with the art world

• Purpose of Education: An Extensive Public Debate

• The Discursive Gap

• I generally can’t stand Damien Hirst but love this passage…

• The idea of ’emotional purchase’

• Why I can’t take postmodernists seriously when they talk about politics…

• The cultural transformation driven by the internet & the case study of asexuality

• An introduction to Margaret Archer’s hugely under-appreciated work on culture (cannibalisation of the unpublished chapter part 2)

• I’m cannibalising an unpublished book chapter and I can’t bring myself to just delete the bits that aren’t going in the new paper…

• The Best of Times

• The 5 most popular articles on my blog in 2012

• 2011: the year when I got REALLY into doing podcasts…

• ‘Lady Di’ and Kim Jong-il: weird affinities…

• A quick post on attachement theory and my PhD

• Spotlight on Asexuality Studies

• I’ve had this song stuck in my head for over a week now, usually doing this helps exorcise it:

• Who is Barack Obama?

• My PhD in 60 seconds

• A modest proposal for postgraduate education

• Chapter plan for ‘Late Capitalism and A/Sexual Culture’

• My TEDx Idea

• A video of my presentation at Spotlight on Asexuality Studies

• Efficiency and Civilisation

• The individual and the public

• Late capitalism and sexual culture – the project plan

• The neoliberal university – what is to be done?

• The psychic realm of neoliberal academia

• The architecture of the neoliberal university