• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• The sociology of civilisational collapse

• Now we’re apart. Though not through choice. Do we stay mute? Or raise our voice?

• Could science fiction be a research method?

• The downward mobility of intellectuals

• Ian McEwan on the mundane reality of reflexivity

• The agricultural origins of pandemics

• The irreducibility of hope

• What is ‘post-truth’?

• The Isolation Pod: Theorising in/of Covid-19

• The geopolitics of Big Tech and the Covid crisis

• Žižek on Covid temporalities

• Slavoj Žižek’s surprisingly earnest and rather good advice about adapting to lockdown

• The Utopian Dystopia of Lockdown

• The abandoned city

• Panic and reflexivity

• Our vocabulary of intervention in a platformised crisis

• Why do academic celebrities self-plagiarise?

• The fast eat the slow, the rich eat the fast. Or, the moral economy of Thomas Friedman’s digital illiteracy

• Will Covid-19 generate an epidemiological folk consciousness? What will this mean for platform capitalism?

• Covid-19 and the re-politicisation of the economy

• Covid-19 and the impossibility of floating freely in our undisturbed balance

• The epochal sublime

• Covid and Social Acceleration

• The fragmentation of the humanities

• Against the theoretical avant-garde, some thoughts against Rosi Braidotti’s PostHumanities

• the pandemic age has its origins in neoliberal agribusiness

• The Shifting Plate Tectonics of Late Neoliberalism

• The neoliberal social contract

• What is an essay?

• The pleasures which superstar professors have access too

• What noisily calls itself philosophy

• The Anthropological Shock

• Anti-Trumpism mirrored Trumpism

• Just the flu

• The anthropological shock of Covid-19

• Eventbrite mobilising users to lobby for government support

• Cosmopolitanism as class project

• Philosophical problems as existential problems: the difficulty of Nietzsche’s internal conversations

• The fragmentation of audiences is the norm, their centralisation is the exception

• What an exhausting strike this has been

• “Free speech” in the attention economy

• Post-neoliberal civics and the symmetry problem

• Neoliberalism is limping to its death: what comes next?

• The emerging contours of (alt)liberal anti-leftism

• The lack of normative guidance in the sharing economy

• The parallel between publishing and academia

• Digital Strategy for Learned Societies

• The politics of seeking a less clamorous place

• The challenge of post-neoliberal civics

• Transhumanism and Marxist

• From data-driven politics to weaponised social media

• Europe is lost