• On misidentifying aggregation dynamics as social norms

• An interview with the Studies in Critical Realism podcast

• CFP: “Digital Subjectivities” Conference (Freie Universität Berlin, May 2026)

• The practice of social theory

• Call for Short Papers – One-Day Symposium (The Process and Implications of Doing Social Theory)

• Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory in Education, Jan 24th in Bath/online

• Your friendly neighbourhood social theorist version 1.0: a conversational partner to support theorising

• Understanding concepts by tracing their journey through the theory/practice nexus

• Why did Giddens largely ignore Bourdieu?

• Claude AI the social theorist. Or, can we have theorising without thinking?

• In defence of thinking in a speculative way

• How to enjoy reading social theory

• Why do some people enjoy social theory while others don’t?

• David Hume on escaping an overheated brain

• The importance of a chart is inversely proportional to its necessity to the argument

• A few sketchy thoughts on how theory is accelerating

• Social theory as sociology’s meta-conversation

• When sociology becomes a source of legitimation rather than critique: the case of Anthony Giddens

• Sally Rooney on Theory Anxiety

• The globalisation of critical theory is inseparable from its Americanization

• On being a concept wrangler

• The rightward drift of Slavoj Žižek

• Against poststructuralism

• The generational politics of critical theory

• Hybrid formats for communicating theory

• The Sociology of Stupid Assumptions

• Understanding the agency of people we disapprove of

• When a conference has a meta-conference: reflections on the first day of live blogging at #undisciplining

• The role of dichotomies in social theory

• Barbara Adam on the practice of theorising

• Using social media as a social theorist

• What the lost tradition of classical British social theory can teach us about the dangers of charismatic leadership

• The Sociology of Ryan Air, or, when normativity fails to reproduce itself

• The social struggle between collegiality and bureaucracy

• CfP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research

• CfP: Articulating Voice

• Using social media as a social theorist

• Proposal for a Concept Lab

• Social ontology and the challenge of suitcase words

• CfP: Digital transformation of social theory

• Margaret Archer as neo-classical British social theorist

• A renewed engagement with the past could be a powerful means through which the critical tradition in British sociology could fortify itself for a difficult future

• In defence of the individual

• Social acceleration and the possibility of the sacred 

• There once was a ‘sociology movement’: could there be one again?

• The fox’s way of being-in-the-world

• Alt-america and the epistemic confusion of liberalism

• The Social Ontology of ‘Free’ and ‘Open’

• How can Sociology be inspired by its own archive?

• Erving Goffman: the rag-and-bone man of Sociology

• The acceleration of social theory

• Social media and the devaluation of introspection

• What Happened? The end of modernisation

• Mechanisms of normative change 

• Accounting for the distinctiveness of the contemporary age

• The aestheticised mode of social theorising

• Five thoughts on abstraction

• Some thoughts on the ontology of games 

• Critical Realism and Object-Orientated Philosophy on the Status of Objects

• Archer and Harman on modes of reduction

• The phenomenology of cultural bingeing

• The Surplus of Objects

• The question of the human in philosophy of technology 

• Politico-environmental crisis

• Two modes for becoming who we are 

• The relative value of journalism and social philosophy

• From a politics of speed to a political sociology of speed

• Political speeches, relational authoriality and fetishising ‘strong leadership’

• The precursors to curation

• On the Spiralists

• What would a materialist phenomenology of ‘post-truth’ look like?

• The causal powers of media

• Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy

• How can Arendt and Heidegger help us think about distraction?

• The Politics of Agency

• Anticipatory Urgency

• The Ontology of Fake News

• The Impact of Social Theory

• The Ontology of Fateful Moments

• The ‘Sharing Economy’ as Disembedding Mechanism

• Margaret Archer and Bernard Lahire as post-Bourdieusian social theorists

• Some really interesting theory reading lists

• Pierre Bourdieu, liberal thought and the ontology of collectives

• Pierre Bourdieu, post-war Algeria and the existential conditions for collective action

• Epochal theorising and business bullshit

• On Social Acceleration

• Denial and the Antinomies of (Post)Truth

• Devushkin as the Eviscerated Human

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

• a bleak social theory for bleak times

• On Teaching Theory

• A conversation with Peter Walsh about Zygmunt Bauman, Academic Celebrity and Social Theory

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

• the riddle of society 

• the esoteric appeal of tony giddens

• The International Origins of Social and Political Theory

• A new resource for teaching social theory

• The unavoidability of sociological theory

• An introduction to analytical sociology

• Notes for a Sociology of Thinking 1.4