• Some recent articles about the accelerated academy

• What would the European Union look like in an American context?

• The Consolations of Gaming in Digital Capitalism

• things I’ve been reading recently #28

• A Trump Presidency and the Militarisation of America

• External economic relations and the norm of imbalance

• The concept of ‘social editor’

• 10 facts about the changing digital news landscape

• The Epistemic Distance of Data Scientists

• Call for Abstracts: Minconference on Digital Sociology

• The political economy of podcasting

• Some thoughts on fast and slow science in the accelerated academy

• Cultural scaffolding for greedy social roles

• The monopoly bias in the sharing economy

• Collapsing the parameters of our worlds

• Algorithmic Guerrilla Warfare

• Three weeks, four requests and still no ballot paper 

• The cosmopolitan self vs the endurance self

• 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

• A Digital Capitalism Reading List

• Donald Trump explaining intelligence

• The emotional dimension of chronopolitics

• An Open Access Series of Books on Why We Post

• The sobered modernist perspective

• The digital avoidance of difference

• Structural limits to self-control

• The fetishisation of the event 

• Symposium: Anxiety and Work in the Accelerated Academy

• The colonisation of life by work

• Trump is masculinising poverty

• A wonderful example of how universities can use YouTube

• Well now everything dies baby that’s a fact

• The political significance of the zombie horde

• Home ownership as a psychological rather than economic reality 

• The future of labour in digital capitalism

• The fragility of the occupy movement

• What do you do when people you like act offensively online?

• Fragile movements and their political cultures 

• From Platform Capitalism to Protocol Communism

• The coming army of American demagogues

• The Geographical Dynamics of Winner-Takes-Most

• When did optimism become a characteristic possessed by the right and lacked by the left?

• Post-democratic decision making in the EU

• Academic video blogs: 5 tips for getting started

• Constraining the dreams of (aspiring) #digitalelites

• The economic limitations of the attention economy

• Something has ended and everyone can feel it

• What is a ‘strike’ and what is a ‘riot’?

• Symposium: Anxiety and Work in the Accelerated Academy