• The geopolitics of Big Tech and the Covid crisis

• Žižek on Covid temporalities

• Slavoj Žižek’s surprisingly earnest and rather good advice about adapting to lockdown

• The Utopian Dystopia of Lockdown

• The abandoned city

• Panic and reflexivity

• Our vocabulary of intervention in a platformised crisis

• Why do academic celebrities self-plagiarise?

• The fast eat the slow, the rich eat the fast. Or, the moral economy of Thomas Friedman’s digital illiteracy

• Will Covid-19 generate an epidemiological folk consciousness? What will this mean for platform capitalism?

• Covid-19 and the re-politicisation of the economy

• Covid-19 and the impossibility of floating freely in our undisturbed balance

• The epochal sublime

• Covid and Social Acceleration

• The fragmentation of the humanities

• Against the theoretical avant-garde, some thoughts against Rosi Braidotti’s PostHumanities

• the pandemic age has its origins in neoliberal agribusiness

• The Shifting Plate Tectonics of Late Neoliberalism

• The neoliberal social contract

• What is an essay?

• The pleasures which superstar professors have access too

• What noisily calls itself philosophy

• The Anthropological Shock

• Anti-Trumpism mirrored Trumpism

• Just the flu

• The anthropological shock of Covid-19

• Eventbrite mobilising users to lobby for government support

• Cosmopolitanism as class project

• Philosophical problems as existential problems: the difficulty of Nietzsche’s internal conversations

• The fragmentation of audiences is the norm, their centralisation is the exception

• What an exhausting strike this has been

• “Free speech” in the attention economy

• Post-neoliberal civics and the symmetry problem

• Neoliberalism is limping to its death: what comes next?

• The emerging contours of (alt)liberal anti-leftism

• The lack of normative guidance in the sharing economy

• The parallel between publishing and academia

• Digital Strategy for Learned Societies

• The politics of seeking a less clamorous place

• The challenge of post-neoliberal civics

• Transhumanism and Marxist

• From data-driven politics to weaponised social media

• Europe is lost

• The perpetual warfare of the populist president

• Inviting regulation once you’ve already won

• The immersive challenge of the hyperserial narrative

• The macro-economic costs of distraction

• How BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti literally discovered viralityx.

• The Transformation of Higher Education: Acceleration, Platformisation and Digitalisation

• The arms race of celebrity

• The problem of British towns

• Durkheim on bounding variety

• AOL as the first mass commercial social media

• When does an immersive video game become an addictive one?

• Wikibombing

• The quality of attention

• Durkheim on individualisation and the weakening of collective experience

• Durkheim on the origin of reflexivity

• Digital Anthropology, Digital Geography and Digital Sociology

• Thematic issue in Digital Capitalism

• Andrew Chadwick on Donald Trump’s social media engagement advantage

• Durkheim’s argument about social contagion is immensely relevant to contemporary discussions of ‘fake news’ and computational propaganda

• Fascism and the pleasures of joining in

• The widespread sense of homo distractus

• An Agenda for Platformisation Studies v1.1

• Why social media matters for academics

• Durkheim on neuropathy and the inability to settle into a stable life

• To what extent is political Twitter pointless?

• Do you edit an academic journal?

• Liberating ‘digital’ from ‘technology’

• The micro-foundationalism of Erich Fromm

• Encouraging a collective identity in the absence of organisational mechanisms

• The future of the influencer amidst declining engagement rates

• Durkheim’s account of the boundary between the psychological and sociological

• Knowing when to end projects

• The unsustainability of 5G and the growth of tech nationalism

• How big tech perceives China

• Artificial intelligence as the perfect servant

• The institutional users of platforms and their intra-organisational dynamics

• Robot, experience this tragic irony for me

• Machine learning and authoritarianism

• Big tech is now too-big-to-fail

• The things I’ve published in late 2019

• The Platform Ecoystem

• Bernard Lahire’s philosophical sociology

• The place of ontological reasoning in platform studies

• Ivan Illich on the myth of limits

• CfP: Addressing Violent Youth Radicalisation in Europe

• A few thoughts on the election

• The politics of being well-organised

• Political information cycles and the political economy of time

• Taking tech firms seriously as sources of moral ideas

• Wikileaks and the avant-garde of data strategy

• Election 2019 and journalism

• Google’s astroturfing operation

• So this is why we try? We bet it all on hopeless?

• Ontological junctures

• The man instead of seeking a kind of…

• Online != Grassroots

• The role of sovereign wealth funds in big tech