• Litany of Blooming, by Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens

• Nick Cave on creating on the edge of disaster

• David Hume on escaping an overheated brain

• Should I rejoin Twitter?

• What happens if Twitter fails? A few provisional suggestions

• The chasm at the heart of our agency

• Coaxing the sight and sound back to your life

• New Paper: Is it Paranoia? A Critical Approach to Platform Literacy

• The growing infrastructural dominance of big tech within education. What is to be done?

• Critical Realism & Technology Reading Group, Friday October 28th 1pm-2pm

• CfP: Public Knowledge – the Academy and Beyond

• What does it mean to live a good life in a broken world? Some post-pandemic thoughts on Charles Taylor’s philosophy

• The temporal ontology of modernity

• Webinar: is an environmentally sustainable digital education possible?

• I built a room for you in the back of my mind

• Are you looking for a teaching role in digital education?

• Toni Morrison on fascism

• Finding joy on a dying planet: failing to act as psychic self-defence and how to overcome it

• The highly evolved, politicised, social industry-based apparatus of personal destruction

• Clive Lawson’s Technology & Isolation (ch 1-3)

• Critical Realism & Technology Reading Group

• Some notes on social generativity

• The Evisceration of the Human Under Digital Capitalism 

• I’m young enough to be all pissed off but I’m old enough to be jaded

• Digital Scholarship after Covid-19: an overview of my next book

• Notes on the conceptual grammar of platforms

• Reflexivity, contingency and platforms

• The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

• What do you do, exactly?

• Flourishing as freedom

• Does Big Tech have too much power in the post-pandemic university?

• Cruel optimism and living for the present

• Cruel optimism and the possibility of renewal

• Trauma as a genre for understanding the present

• Going back to previous moments in your life through films

• Stagnation, euthymia and flourishing

• Do you work with social media in universities?

• The difference between being post-pandemic and post-covid

• How do you have rewarding conversations about social theory?

• Why do we read philosophy?

• I choose this

• Why is learning theory important?

• How many times must we be shown the outcome of the pattern?

• How can we ensure consistency in digital education while leaving room for experimentation?

• Who maintains the social infrastructure we need for scholarship?

• Could we have a university without e-mail?

• Human augmentation and the future of warfare

• George Simmel on Eye Contact

• Dream, dream, for this is also sooth

• How do you use social media for PGT programmes?

• What am I trying to do with my research?

• On Rain

• What is an intellectual community?

• Some thoughts on intellectual community

• What does it mean to be an academic leader?

• And I can feel things changing

• An ecological approach to information overload

• Some critical thoughts on the crisis of student engagement

• Institutionalising Civic engagement: what we can learn from the mistake of pressuring academics to use Twitter

• A cybernetic black pill

• How we survive is what makes us who we are

• 14 tips for academics who are worried about Musk’s Twitter but don’t want to leave entirely

• The grim reality of ‘living with Covid’

• What is my research about?

• How do you listen to audiobooks in a scholarly way?

• Peter Sloterdijk and the concept of the sphere

• A Book Discussion on The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media 

• A first attempt to theorise socialisation in a way which is adequate to the challenges of platform society

• A critical realist critique of Rosi Braidotti’s Posthumanism

• Long Covid in the post-pandemic university

• Psychoanalysis, Capitalism and Resistance

• Critical realism needs to be a living tradition

• An interview with Margaret Archer about her life and work

• Will you forgive my soul when you’re too wise to trust me and too old to care?

• The drama of seeing real thinking

• We are already living in the collapse

• These poor people live in these tiny apartments: Zoom as a window into the lifeworld in an unequal society

• Philosophers as situated in space and time, trying to muddle their way through

• On not swimming in circles

• The tragedy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Hold your own

• Why education matters

• No guilty party

• The loneliness of Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Does Big Tech have too much power in the Post-Pandemic University?

• Can we reclaim our agency by putting the internet in its place?

• The shifting landscape of misinformation: from macro-conspiracies to micro-conspiracies

• And come morning, I am disappeared

• The ontology of virtual worlds

• When will the Metaverse actually arrive?

• Why Microsoft will beat Facebook to the Metaverse

• What’s it like to spend your entire life as a cruise ship guest?

• Our entire life is only 4000 weeks

• Civil inattention on public transport during a pandemic

• What does it feel like to be inspired?

• Levelling Up Education: New Approaches to Place, Work and Education

• The phenomenology of insomnia

• The social ontology of the Metaverse

• Groping nervously towards the expression of inner life