• 📣 Join the AI Commons

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• rough sleeper

• tech giants and the possibility of craft

• Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices

• imagining the apple ecosystem 

• the joys of being-in-the-zone

• the politics of denying causal power to objects 

• a relational theory of addiction 

• manufacturing certainties in response to systemic uncertainties 

• the one where erving goffman works as a pit boss in vegas

• the sociology of ‘blotting out’ experience 

• price of my asexuality book has dropped to £25

• david willetts rehearsing his speech for an important meeting with google

• karl marx’s end of year departmental assessment

• four days left to register for the accelerated academy! deadline nov 20th

• a sociological podcast about culture

• “we know you’re a cheat and you should kill yourself” 2.0

• it goes boom boom boom

• the stupidity of auto-correction in the new OS X

• an accelerated academy reading list

• the need for the social sciences to reclaim their intellectual authority 

• academia is killing my friends

• the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity

• things I’ve been reading recently #15

• expedia and communicative escalation 

• fear of failure and the coding skills bubble

• glenn beck as the apotheosis of correlational thinking 

• a dystopian vision of where the infoglut is leading us 

• further communicative escalation from expedia (yay!)

• a question about digital social science

• call for proposals: social media & society in london

• I only leave the territory, when there’s nothing left to be said

• digital capitalism and the bestiary of the imagination 

• the affective basis of techno-fascism?

• digital capitalism, fetishistic disavowal and faux-collectives 

• dealing with ‘detractors’

• ten post docs (!) on temporality 

• your attention please! digital capitalism and communicative escalation  

• more spam directed at international event organisers

• are any other event organisers getting emails like this?

• distinct digital-advertising landscapes are increasingly drawn on socioeconomic lines

• the ‘soft coup’ currently taking place in portugal 

• the ‘religion’ of digital elites 

• from corporation to social movement: the future of lobbying in the sharing economy 

• a working group to create a realist sociology of flourishing

• what would techno-fascist public space be like?

• using the national gallery for public order policing

• the irresistible temptation for algorithmic function creep 

• big data and the politics of austerity 

• big data, post-democracy and boardroom liberalism

• the big data divide 

• the micro-sociology of algorithmic authority 

• the perverse statism of those seeking to create a market in higher education