• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Take only what you need from it

• The insidious sexism of Modern Family

• Theorising socio-cultural change: a note on the casual contemptuousness of John Milbank and Adrian Pabst

• Physical distancing and intensified social connectivity

• A note of caution about posthumanism in education

• Some thoughts on the political economy of Covid-19

• I’m in love with the night

• Some critical thoughts about the post-digital

• I miss Gaslight Anthem so much

• Why can’t history leave us alone? I want to return to my bubble

• The intoxicating immediacy with which we can now act on the feel of an idea

• A rough draft of a new intellectual biography

• The Co-Production of Platforms by Users: A Case Study of Higher Education

• A conversation with Phil Brooker about Programming-as-Social Science

• Two approaches to musical performance

• I’ve got two books coming in 2021

• What is a platform?

• Platform-based elicitation methods in qualitative research

• A Conversation with Neil Selwyn: Do We Need a Digital Sociology of Higher Education?

• What can social reconstruction teach us about imaging post-pandemic society?

• The Digital Condition: an informal discussion group

• Outflanking Platitudes: Theorising the Pandemic

• The films I’ve watched in the last 3 years

• Are you reading this blog?

• This machine eats normativity

• The light we steal when we learn

• Zygmunt Bauman’s early career as a professional ideologist

• The epochal theorising of Zygmunt Bauman

• The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, Rupert Brooke

• The lumpen-libertarian uprising

• Hold your own

• The Masterplan

• Winter is coming

• The growing divide in educational technology

• The suspended futures of Covid-19

• Post-Pandemic Digital Scholarship

• Why is mass commercial social media ‘mass’ and ‘commercial’?

• Hold your own

• Are we seeing a turn back towards the Open Web?

• It’s easy to forget the thrill of self-publishing, given the dark banality of social media in 2020

• The strangely coherent eclecticism of our inner experience

• Fragile movements and social media

• The infinite lecture hall model

• The campus as a learning infrastructure

• Best practice for communicating with delegates during online conferences

• Some thoughts on blogging during a pandemic

• The coming fascism

• Social media for academics and Covid-19

• Inhabited institutionalism

• Civic decline and the valorisation of debate

• The orthodox narrative of civic decline

• We won’t have digital scholarship until we rethink outputs, expertise and knowledge