• The socio-political makeup of the coronaskeptic movement

• Preventing pandemics or preparing for them

• An internet minute in 2020

• Critical realism and digital social science

• Who’s to hold up the sky if not you and I?

• I got debts that no honest man can pay

• What does it look like when a health care system breaks down?

• This new age of plagues is directly the result of economic globalization

• Post-Pandemic Scholarship: Some Initial Thoughts, April 22nd at 2pm GMT

• The great sickly slums which will soon be screaming

• State capacity for decisive action in an emergency does not necessitate the suppression of democracy

• From the war on terror to the war on pandemics?

• The spectral character of Covid-19, or, will growing deaths undermine denialism

• A sober discussion of vaccine risks

• Defining a time frame: from the pandemic, to the intermediate pandemic to the post-pandemic

• The relevance of Erich Fromm for online learning during a pandemic

• Human culture and Covid-19

• A few thoughts about the anti-lockdown case

• Solutionism and Covid-19

• The variation in the R rate between infected individuals

• The technological strength yet evolutionary weakness of human civilisation vis-a-vis SARS-CoV-2

• The institutional health of Sociology in the UK

• What comes after Trump?

• The tremendously efficient writing of Slavoj Žižek

• Is Slavoj Žižek slowly becoming Christopher Hitchens?

• Take only what you need from it

• The insidious sexism of Modern Family

• Theorising socio-cultural change: a note on the casual contemptuousness of John Milbank and Adrian Pabst

• Physical distancing and intensified social connectivity

• A note of caution about posthumanism in education

• Some thoughts on the political economy of Covid-19

• I’m in love with the night

• Some critical thoughts about the post-digital

• I miss Gaslight Anthem so much

• Why can’t history leave us alone? I want to return to my bubble

• The intoxicating immediacy with which we can now act on the feel of an idea

• A rough draft of a new intellectual biography

• The Co-Production of Platforms by Users: A Case Study of Higher Education

• A conversation with Phil Brooker about Programming-as-Social Science

• Two approaches to musical performance

• I’ve got two books coming in 2021

• What is a platform?

• Platform-based elicitation methods in qualitative research

• A Conversation with Neil Selwyn: Do We Need a Digital Sociology of Higher Education?

• What can social reconstruction teach us about imaging post-pandemic society?

• The Digital Condition: an informal discussion group

• Outflanking Platitudes: Theorising the Pandemic

• The films I’ve watched in the last 3 years

• Are you reading this blog?

• This machine eats normativity

• The light we steal when we learn

• Zygmunt Bauman’s early career as a professional ideologist

• The epochal theorising of Zygmunt Bauman

• The Old Vicarage, Grantchester, Rupert Brooke

• The lumpen-libertarian uprising

• Hold your own

• The Masterplan

• Winter is coming

• The growing divide in educational technology

• The suspended futures of Covid-19

• Post-Pandemic Digital Scholarship

• Why is mass commercial social media ‘mass’ and ‘commercial’?

• Hold your own

• Are we seeing a turn back towards the Open Web?

• It’s easy to forget the thrill of self-publishing, given the dark banality of social media in 2020

• The strangely coherent eclecticism of our inner experience

• Fragile movements and social media

• The infinite lecture hall model

• The campus as a learning infrastructure

• Best practice for communicating with delegates during online conferences

• Some thoughts on blogging during a pandemic

• The coming fascism

• Social media for academics and Covid-19

• Inhabited institutionalism

• Civic decline and the valorisation of debate

• The orthodox narrative of civic decline

• We won’t have digital scholarship until we rethink outputs, expertise and knowledge

• Social media in the Post-Pandemic University: a bootcamp for graduate students

• Silicon Valley’s cult of work

• Trump’s regrets about Twitter

• Time is a cycle, not a line

• Deadline soon! CfP: the Post-Pandemic University

• Platform Epistemics, Slavoj Žižek and Digital Reflexivity

• What does social media do to the civil sphere?

• What is participation?

• Covid-19, lockdown and the kinetic utopia of modernity

• Recognising the need which Jordan Peterson is serving

• The possibility of a digital police state: Hegel, Fichte, Mejias, Couldry, Bauman and Sloterdijk

• The importance of what we don’t (and can’t) say

• What will it be like to work on Elon Musk’s Mars colony?

• Žižek on asexuality

• Elon Musk as the intersection between influencer culture and the stock market

• The terrifying horizon of (digitalised) social order

• Big Tech and sustainability: the current state of play

• The monthly Digital Sociology discussion group

• What is a stereotype?

• Twitter and the structure of polarisation

• Is capitalism too big to fail?

• What is ‘modernising zeal’?

• Call for Papers: Digital Technology, Lockdown and the Post-Pandemic University