• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Call for Papers: Building the Post-Pandemic University

• Neoliberalism and its dependence upon oil

• Why I’m so fascinated by education

• The potential virtues of online education during Covid-19

• Theoretical interventions as events

• To see the machine we need to dispense with the Weberian legacy on technology

• Situating digital education in the longue durée of educational restructuring

• A bleakly plausible future for post-pandemic labour

• The dark side of social media and what it means for academics

• In defence of lurid curiosity about the lives of the rich and powerful

• I don’t mind if I’m with you

• Ulrich Beck’s bleak vision of a future Europe battling against immigration

• Beck on two forms of social integration

• And why the hell, if there are real enemies, shouldn’t I be allowed to insult them?

• Being an intellectual outside the academy: the sociology of branding strategies

• Keeping our intellectual communities going during lockdown: a show and tell workshop

• The private symposia of the rich and powerful

• The disruption of routines and new consumer behaviours

• there are no new beginnings until everybody sees that the old ways need to end

• Running an online conference

• Zuckerberg on the three types of video chat

• The internet and the return of multimodal literacy

• The patterns of life that modernity engenders can only be practiced by a small minority of the world’s population

• The rich have much to lose, the poor do not

• The uncanny remembrance of the non-human

• The materiality of resources and the social forms they give rise to

• “A life. A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the shit that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come”

• 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