• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• What does it mean to be an intellectual in an age of social media?

• “Open, good. Closed, bad. Tattoo it on your forehead”: Placing the technology sector in social and economic history

• Three projects about the future of data

• On Social Acceleration

• The Importance of Business Culture

• The Banal Bullshit of Thomas Friedman

• Denial and the Antinomies of (Post)Truth

• The Sociology of Predatory Publishing

• CfP: Public sociology and the role of the researcher

• pirate philosophy in (and for) the digital university

• Out trolling the trolls

• The Launch of the Digital Geographies Group

• trying to write when you’re triaging

• Eric Schmidt’s Predictions for the Next Decade

• some thoughts on the poetics of impact

• Pascalian Meditations on the Digital University

• Devushkin as the Eviscerated Human

• Social media for academics and the increasing toxicity of the online ecology

• “Scholar? Nah, I’m a grants factory…”

• Writing prompts for a PhD journal

• The MOOC as a trojan horse

• Social Media For Academics: Things To Try

• The epistemology of democracy’s death

• Online Harassment

• The Eschatology of Technology

• The Evisceration of the Human

• Moral Responsibility in an Age of Distraction

• Against ‘openness’

• The forward-facing ideology of technology: erasing history and context 

• How universities shape the technology developed for them

• Social media for academics and the dangers of a “content delivery” mindset

• The Banal Reality of Democracy’s Death

• Deadline soon! @TheSocReview ECR Essay Competition

• ‘Disruption’ as the last refuge of the Third Way

• a bleak social theory for bleak times

• Quit social media

• Some recent videos of Harmut Rosa talking about social acceleration

• Two Visions of our Automated Retail Future

• Notes on Platform Capitalism

• The Digital Everyday: Exploration or Alienation?

• CfP: The Future Between Progress and Regression

• A reading list on interdisciplinarity, with a conceptual and digital bias

• The (un)productive chaos of disciplines

• The lost socio-technical architecture of qualitative research

• The ontology of data, the ideology of data 

• Some thoughts on platform capitalism, cash hoarding, innovation and ideology

• South Park’s theory of trolling: Trevor’s Axiom

• The Distraction of the Networked Writer

• Discipline and innovate 

• It looks like you’re trying to write a digital detox piece

• The self-importance of researchers

• Academic exceptionalism and the black-boxing of academic labour