• What is ‘the literature’?

• The lineaments of techno-fascism

• The substitute socialisation of the marine corp

• Social Media and Public Sociology

• The Affectivity of the Nascent Tyrant

• Towards a sociology of Pikettyville

• No longer praying at the altar of virality

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

• Chronosolidarity

• A vicious circle of reprisals and hostility

• The Practice of Public Sociology: Sociological Review Early Career Event

• Call for Papers: State Crime and Digital Resistance (Deadline 30 November)

• Out Now: Selected Papers of Margaret Archer

• A conversation with Gary Hall about pirate philosophy, academic celebrity and social theory

• Striving for a ‘rigorous’ politics

• The affinity between enlightened technocrats and digital elites

• The bureaucratic origins of algorithmic authoritarianism

• The class politics of innovation and the new digital elite

• Broken Fingers

• things I’ve been reading recently #29

• Digital Sociology vs STS

• The pace of critique in a world of accelerating upheaval

• “we need more post-ideological, budget-balancing, technocratic centrism!”

• Donald Trump’s Words of Power

• The Sociology of Trump: An Initial Reading List

• The Everyday Life of Incipient Fascism

• Four year post doc in #digitalsociology

• Towards a Pirate Sociology

• When universities fail to cope with digitalisation

• Perfect Government

• The Relative Autonomy of Symbolic Mediation

• The Philosophical Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

• Upcoming @BalanceNetwork events

• The Place That Sends You Mad

• How the Pentagon imagines the future of cities

• Digitalisation and the elimination of latency 

• Methodological challenges facing the digital sociology of work

• Social Media and Open Research: What Does ‘Open’ Mean?

• 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