Skip to content
Mark Carrigan

Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Events
  • Research
    • LLMs and social life
    • Higher education
    • Psychodynamics
    • Realism and social theory
    • Platforms
    • Academic practice
  • Stuff I Like
    • Urban Geometries
  • Public writing
  • Publications
  • Media coverage
  • Get In Touch
  • LinkedIn
  • SoundCloud
  • YouTube
  • Spotify
  • I’m slightly embarrassed to admit how much I think I would enjoy this job

  • Nietzsche on the narrow chamber of human consciousness

  • The social struggle between collegiality and bureaucracy

  • The Digital Monad

  • The digital hipster: when cultural modernism meets accelerated work

  • The Ideal of the Digital Nomad

  • The lost lure of abundance

  • The ascent of the spiralists

  • Time-packing and space-packing

  • Digital labour and the epistemic fallacy 

  • The meaning of scientific participation in an age of crowd work

  • Liberating discretionary effort by robbing your staff of a personal life

  • The Workation

  • The self-importance of researchers

  • The Happy Unemployment of Horses

  • Chronosolidarity

  • The Place That Sends You Mad

  • Digitalisation and the elimination of latency 

  • Methodological challenges facing the digital sociology of work

  • The Consolations of Gaming in Digital Capitalism

  • The moralisation of insecurity and exploitation

  • Ambient intimacy and cultures of overwork

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

  • The Dispositions of the Metricised

  • The colonisation of life by work

  • The future of labour in digital capitalism

  • The Intensified Work of Start-Ups

  • The Lived Reality of Work in Tech Firms

  • Ford’s Sociological Department

  • Interned Professionals and Defensive Elites

  • Credentials, recruitment and big data 

  • The Zero Marginal Cost Society

  • UCU workload survey report

  • The Intern Army on Which Washington Depends

  • Digital capitalism and the imperative to be noticed 

  • Are exploitative professors breaking the law by recruiting student interns?

  • The growth of the Twinterns

  • Magical thinking as occupational opportunities contract 

  • Predictive analytics and the intensification of work

  • Imposing impossible demands as a management strategy

  • Crowd sourcing technical support: why do user helps corporations?

  • The Temporal Cost of the Commute

  • Convenience rather than urgency as a driver of constant connectivity

  • “Please, sir, may I go home?”

  • The Pains of Work and the Relief of the Refrain

  • “What do you do?”

  • The Work Dogma and Contraction of the Existential Imagination

  • The Fracturing of Free Time

  • The intensification of work and the death of imagination

  • Self-pimping as the prevailing social and business imperative

  • an uncertain future (for other people’s jobs)

  • the peak experiences of intensified work

  • business for punks from the bottom-up

  • How Google models itself on graduate school

  • the obsessive secrecy of Apple

  • the discourse of ‘burn out’ in silicon valley

  • the reality of ‘20% time’ at Google

  • the intensification of demands upon managers 

  • the traditional model of information flow within organisations

  • the sociology of executive coaching

  • the sociology of corporate perks

  • Work in the Digital Society

  • Google’s war against latency

  • the burden of chrono-reflexivity at work

  • the corporate housewife, eliminating the need for mundane reflexivity

  • enjoying it: candy crush and capitalism

  • institutionalised goal setting in tech firms 

  • CFP: CSCW’16 Workshop on Algorithms at Work

  • Dynamics of Virtual Work: Book series launch

  • smart phones and work place repression

  • the deroutinisation of work

  • bureaucratic bloat as a defining feature of digital capitalism

  • the irreducibility of interpretation in socio-technical systems

  • from governing the body to governing the mind

  • self-tracking to pre-empt social tracking

  • a taxonomy of corporate monitoring software

  • the Japanese recovery of participatory Taylorism

  • soft flexibility vs hard flexibility  

  • how much time do workers spend worrying?

  • skill complementarity, skill substitution and skill debilitation 

  • the digitally-facilitated intensification of work

  • the future of transparency in the civil service?

  • organisational minimalism

  • cognitive triage and the acceleration of design

  • tech giants and the possibility of craft

  • the manchester ethnography network seminar series

  • the intensification of work and the notion of work/life balance

  • loyalty to the facebook mission 

  • the emergency as a tool of labour discipline 

  • the motivational challenge of corporate success in tech

  • the multiple time regimes within facebook

  • you are always being ranked and it’s your job to perform 

  • a perpetual-motion machine that runs on a weird mix of dissatisfaction and eternal hope

  • acronyms seriously suck 

  • the hiring rituals of tech companies 

  • the pleasures of intensified work

  • the first gold rush of digital capitalism 

  • the insular world of a technology giant

  • the intensification of work and the competitive busyness of ceos

  • the boss in your head: an unrecognised form of reflexivity?

1 2
Next Page
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    Mark Carrigan
    Join 5,626 other subscribers

    Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

  • Mark Carrigan
    View site in Reader
    Manage subscriptionsSign upLog in
    Report this content
    Collapse this bar