• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• From cyberspace to constant connectivity: the social ontology of socio-technical change

• CFP – Intersectionalities and Media Archaeologies

• Social media and the devaluation of introspection

• What Happened? The end of modernisation

• Mechanisms of normative change 

• Call for Abstracts – Lives of Data v2.0: Computing, Money, Media Workshop

• Hilary Clinton: The oddly fascinating confessions of a political centrist

• Daniel Bell, Transgression and the Alt-Right

• CFP: Platform Urbanism

• An attempt to define my research interests

• Defensive Elites

• The rise of the ‘higher education professional’

• The Digital Monad

• CFP: Storing and Sharing Special Issue of New Media & Society

• An obscenity on the district line

• The digital hipster: when cultural modernism meets accelerated work

• CfP: An Agenda for Graphic Social Science

• Job Opportunity: Digital Engagement Officer

• The Ideal of the Digital Nomad

• Accounting for the distinctiveness of the contemporary age

• The aestheticised mode of social theorising

• Sociological micro-fiction

• The fetishisation of interiority

• Conduits for variety

• The lost lure of abundance

• 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

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• 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?

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• 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