• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Post-Pandemic Scholarship: Some Initial Thoughts, April 22nd at 2pm GMT

• The great sickly slums which will soon be screaming

• State capacity for decisive action in an emergency does not necessitate the suppression of democracy

• From the war on terror to the war on pandemics?

• The spectral character of Covid-19, or, will growing deaths undermine denialism

• A sober discussion of vaccine risks

• Defining a time frame: from the pandemic, to the intermediate pandemic to the post-pandemic

• The relevance of Erich Fromm for online learning during a pandemic

• Human culture and Covid-19

• A few thoughts about the anti-lockdown case

• Solutionism and Covid-19

• The variation in the R rate between infected individuals

• The technological strength yet evolutionary weakness of human civilisation vis-a-vis SARS-CoV-2

• The institutional health of Sociology in the UK

• What comes after Trump?

• The tremendously efficient writing of Slavoj Žižek

• Is Slavoj Žižek slowly becoming Christopher Hitchens?

• 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