• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Trump administration seeking permission to destroy massive amounts of existing and future records

• The challenge of being ready to think

• On being a concept wrangler

• The organic sociology of Silicon Valley

• The everyday life of platform capitalism’s elites

• The rightward drift of Slavoj Žižek

• Against poststructuralism

• The vulnerability of human experience to abbreviation

• Where do data scientists come from?

• The generational politics of critical theory

• Socialising the machines

• SRA Annual Conference 2018: Adapting to change – where next for social research?

• CfP: Post-H(uman) index? Politics, metrics, and agency in the accelerated academy

• The Foundations of British Sociology

• Films I’ve seen recently

• Books I’ve been reading

• Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

• Will I survive a nine mile walk and make it home to Molly?

• Workshop: The Foundations of British Sociology

• I’m slightly embarrassed to admit how much I think I would enjoy this job

• When the populists inspire the ad men

• What I want to do in the next few years and how I plan to do it

• The (creepy) spirit of digital capitalism

• The disjointed temporality of political life

• The intellectual sclerosis of the superstar intellectual

• The claustrophobia of imminence

• The incredible shrinking scope of the celebrity intellectual

• The Labour leadership’s embrace of social media outriders

• What is it like to be a stray dog in a city?

• Hybrid formats for communicating theory

• The Face in the Crowd

• The Sociological Review and the History of the Discipline

• The Sociology of Stupid Assumptions

• The epochal tetchiness of Anglo-American centrists

• Nietzsche on the narrow chamber of human consciousness

• things I’ve been reading recently #42

• What does the case of Jeffery Sachs tell us about the accelerated academy?

• From the Ivory Tower to the Glass Tower

• Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

• What we mean when we talk about the Platform University

• The cultural consequences of start-ups remaining private

• Understanding the agency of people we disapprove of

• The #Undisciplining Meta-Conference

• Why quote tweeting as a form of reply is creepy

• The existential challenge of changing tempo

• Defending the social at #undisciplining

• When a conference has a meta-conference: reflections on the first day of live blogging at #undisciplining

• Accelerating into the singularity 

• Why we shouldn’t take social media metrics too seriously

• Big data, human agency, critical realism and the future of the social sciences

• Things I’ve realised in 45 days of not drinking

• Carrying a book around inside your head