• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Music for thinking

• Music is the basis of all life

• What do you do? Intellectual biography as self-constitution

• Cambridge: the most unequal city in the UK

• The suprisingly familiar character of the TikTok algorithm

• Why capitalism made it impossible to eradicate Covid

• So you don’t want to be a normal journal any more?

• When will we know how dangerous Omicron is?

• I keep having dreams of things I need to do, of waking up and of following through

• Towards a sociology of splintered minds

• A beginner’s guide to Omicron 

• What will post-neoliberalism look like?

• Social media for academics and the circulation of expert concepts

• We need a military history of the culture wars

• The things which bring us together

• A Heideggerian reading of Margaret Archer

• I’ve been slowly developing a philosophy of academic development without realising this is what I was doing

• Will QAnon go mainstream through evangelical christianity?

• So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten

• Resources for organising online conferences

• The inner life of behaviourists

• The existential challenge of the post-capitalist condition

• Sing, Sing, Sing

• How Covid-19 accelerated the transition into post-capitalism

• We’re leaving neoliberalism and entering something worse

• I don’t rate you 👊

• The emptiness that comes with online performance

• Social media is reshaping universities’ value systems in a scramble for likes and shares

• New Paper: Platforms and Institutions in the Post-Pandemic University

• Yanis Varoufakis on Post-Pandemic Technofeudalism

• CfP: Digital Academia

• The Rise of Educational Audio

• Winter is coming 🎶😷🌨☃️

• The flow of writing

• A few thoughts on Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres

• Ralph Waldo Emerson’s self-reliance amidst the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• Walter Lippmann on the sociological imagination

• What is practical reasoning?

• Building and unveiling worlds in science fiction

• Why do we spend so little time analysing the socio-economic catastrophes which almost happened?

• Some rambling reflections on being a millennial leftist during this crisis, post-pandemic inequalities and the union sacrée of Covid-19

• I choose this, I choose this, I choose this

• Why isn’t the cost of living crisis the defining issue of UK politics?

• The Beautiful Soul of the Critical Academic

• Who do we imagine ourselves to be tweeting on behalf of? Norm circles, networked harassment and the politics of social media

• Epistemic positioning and epistemic injustice 

• Succession and the hidden injuries of the neoliberal subject

• If you want to provide your writing with a sense of occasion, listen to this in the background

• Platform capitalism’s ideology of human frailty

• What can we do about the post pandemic university?

• The limits of online learning

• What the intersection of Covid and climate crisis means for capitalism