• 📣 Launching the Archer PhD & ECR Network

• 📚Assessment, Learning and Institutional Capacity: an evidence resource to accompany The AI Crisis in Higher Education

• 📣 My new book The AI Crisis in Higher Education: A Strategic Proposal is now out open access

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• The unraveling of factfulness and the political ontology of representation

• Losing yourself in Westeros

• Taking distraction seriously as a political factor  

• The ideology of how ‘the world really is’

• Reconciling the psychoanalytical and the reflexive 

• Donald Trump as spectacle and fetish

• Outflanking platitudes #1: Looking Forwards and Backwards

• Education Beyond Dispute: the work of Stafford Beer for Teaching and Learning

• Stafford Beer, Reflexive Poise and Human Flourishing

• The worldly intellectualism of Stafford Beer

• Fascism and the liberal imagination

• The fragile crowd 

• The globalisation of critical theory is inseparable from its Americanization

• Developing platform literacy from the ground up can be a bulwark against corporate power

• Provincialising disruption

• The meaning of Jair Bolsonaro

• Mining resonance to the point of exhaustion, or, why does this sound so shit to me now?

• (Post)Humanism in the Accelerated Academy

• Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

• The cultural sociology of defensive elites

• Détournement and social media

• The weaponisation of epistemology: strategy and tactics

• The underdetermination of agency by architecture

• An introduction to social media for academics

• Fascinating call for papers on infrastructural politics 

• 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