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• The pace of critique in a world of accelerating upheaval

• “we need more post-ideological, budget-balancing, technocratic centrism!”

• Donald Trump’s Words of Power

• The Sociology of Trump: An Initial Reading List

• The Everyday Life of Incipient Fascism

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• Towards a Pirate Sociology

• When universities fail to cope with digitalisation

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• The Philosophical Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

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• The Place That Sends You Mad

• How the Pentagon imagines the future of cities

• Digitalisation and the elimination of latency 

• Methodological challenges facing the digital sociology of work

• Social Media and Open Research: What Does ‘Open’ Mean?

• Some recent articles about the accelerated academy

• What would the European Union look like in an American context?

• The Consolations of Gaming in Digital Capitalism

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• A Trump Presidency and the Militarisation of America

• External economic relations and the norm of imbalance

• The concept of ‘social editor’

• 10 facts about the changing digital news landscape

• The Epistemic Distance of Data Scientists

• Call for Abstracts: Minconference on Digital Sociology

• The political economy of podcasting

• Some thoughts on fast and slow science in the accelerated academy

• Cultural scaffolding for greedy social roles

• The monopoly bias in the sharing economy

• Collapsing the parameters of our worlds

• Algorithmic Guerrilla Warfare

• Three weeks, four requests and still no ballot paper 

• The cosmopolitan self vs the endurance self

• The moralisation of insecurity and exploitation

• What’s the collective noun for a group of social theorists?

• music I find inexplicably conducive to writing (#24)

• The poor white American abject 

• The “least resistant personality profile”

• Ambient intimacy and cultures of overwork

• The history of data-as-rhetoric 

• Big data, new skills: how the accelerated academy hinders the interdisciplinary collaboration we need

• Liberation and coercion

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• Practical Sociology: Agenda for Action

• Social Movements and Pseudo-Activity 

• Varoufakis on the monopoly power of platforms

• Open Research for Academics: A workshop and hackathon

• Symposium: Anxiety and Work in the Accelerated Academy

• CfP: Social Media and Social Futures – a special issue of @DiscoverSoc

• Yanis Varoufakis on the Parallax Challenge