• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• CFP: Slow computing: A workshop on resistance in the algorithmic age

• Five thoughts on abstraction

• Extracting oneself from the great twittering machine

• The revolving door between Google and government

• The uncoupling of transgression from progress

• things I’ve been reading recently #37

• Some thoughts on the ontology of games 

• The ascent of the spiralists

• From a cult of youth to a cult of age

• Critical Realism and Object-Orientated Philosophy on the Status of Objects

• Archer and Harman on modes of reduction

• Call for Participation: Sociology and Social Media, Problems and Prospects

• The phenomenology of cultural bingeing

• Elites preparing for disaster

• Online armies at your command

• The populist right are demotic, rather than democratic

• The Surplus of Objects

• How widespread is shadow mobilisation?

• things I’ve been reading recently #36

• To Blog or Not to Blog: Research Projects, Centres and Networks

• Social Media and Social Order

• The rhetoric and reality of user generated content 

• The content density of a cultural producer 

• Towards a sociological curatorial journalism 

• Denaturalising digital capitalism

• “So you thought about it one day and started the next morning?”

• Agnotology, Science and Public Engagement

• The question of the human in philosophy of technology 

• The notion of a ‘playbook’

• The fortress city and what it may portend

• Politico-environmental crisis

• Public Intellectuals and the Shock Doctrine

• Brand Corbyn and Brand Trump

• A playbook for merchandising doubt

• The disruptive presidency of Donald Trump

• What does public sociology have to say about sociologists who are ‘merchants of doubt’?

• Two modes for becoming who we are 

• The data warriors and the electoral wars they wage

• What is Graphic Social Science?

• The revenge practices of plutocrats

• things I’ve been reading recently #35

• The dark future of mediatization

• The relative value of journalism and social philosophy

• From a politics of speed to a political sociology of speed

• Against the ‘political rulebook’

• The abuse Corbyn was subject to from Labour MPs

• How Corbyn hacked the media

• When Tweets Turn Sour: Avoiding Legal Pitfalls on Social Media

• “Help! Help! Here comes everybody!”: Social Media and Corbynism

• Public intellectuals as guides to the political flux, Or, “who can tell us what the fuck is going on?”

• CfP: Japan in the Digital Age

• Political speeches, relational authoriality and fetishising ‘strong leadership’