• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• 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

• things I’ve been reading recently #28

• 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

• Practical Sociology: Agenda for Action

• The acceleration of politics and the impossibility of theory

• The limitations of digital technology for repoliticising the depoliticised

• The Joys of Weak Ties

• things I’ve been reading recently #27

• The necessity of selection

• The otherness of animals

• Ethical consumerism as self-exclusion

• Another review of Social Media For Academics

• Really interesting lecture by @JaneElliott66 on Big Data & the Qual/Quant Divide

• The evacuation of the social by elites 

• Against the notion of ‘craft’: thoughts on the cultural politics of romanticising exploitation

• Social democracy is not post-capitalism, it’s past capitalism

• The Dystopic Turn in Social Science

• The vexatious fact of society

• The Individualisation of Utopia

• Digital capitalism and concentration of ownership

• Images of the end of capitalism

• The hollowness of cultural politics 

• The Pseudo-Catharsis of Social Media

• The difference between philosophy and talk about philosophy

• The components of social democracy 

• Colin Crouch on epochal theorising 

• A Guide to Instagram Marketing

• The Epistemological Obstacles to Understanding Social Movements

• Jeremy Corbyn as the mirror image of Margaret Thatcher

• We should be very careful about how we construct ‘the public’ in discourses of public engagement

• Three reasons why I believe in Jeremy Corbyn (and some doubts)

• Are journalists personally afraid of a Trump presidency?

• The Dispositions of the Metricised

• The Antinomies of ‘Intelligence’

• 3 dystopian visions of the future of gaming (and capitalism)

• Tony Benn on the Labour Party in 1991

• The Lean Revolution in Higher Education

• things I’ve been reading recently #26