• 📣 Platform and Agency: Becoming Who We Are now available

• What I mean when I talk about ‘LLMs in the lifeworld’

• Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms

• How would workplace learning work if there’s an LLM driven removal of entry level jobs?

• Was Jordan Peterson radicalised by his own audience?

• Chapters abstracts for my new book

• Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

• Does Trump dictate his tweets?

• Interview in the Telegraph about touchscreens and digital change

• After 16 years and 7 months I’ve finished Platform and Agency

• Digital elites and reactionary modernism

• Using reasoning models to support theory-building

• The enshittification of Spotify

• How much time does Elon Musk spend tweeting each day?

• The anxiety of individualisation

• What is Elon Musk’s end game?

• We need a conceptual framework for LLMs and social visibility

• The enshittification of enshittification

• Some thoughts about Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism

• Can ChatGPT do public sociology? Sociological Practice, AI and Platform Capitalism

• Atomised society has stitched itself back together and it’s pretty awful really

• Interview in the Observer about the growth of Bluesky and the decline of Twitter

• We are building a ship in a bottle, sitting on Elon Musk’s desk to entertain him when he’s bored and to help him make money

• Was Tony Blair the first effective accelerationist?

• Integrating Christopher Alexander’s design theory into Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic approach

• What happens when GAI becomes a taken for granted feature of our digital infrastructure?

• Nick Cave: “put your fucking phones away”

• There is always a missed understanding between people

• Sam Altman: the billionaire prepper who believes he has achieved enlightenment

• Elon Musk (2010) vs Elon Musk (2024): the radicalisation of America’s digital elites

• The internet and pluralistic ignorance

• 26% of 5-7 year olds in the UK own a smart phone

• That time Bill Gates paid the government to build him a secret tunnel to his vacation home

• Seeing my response under the new description allows me to experience it in a new way

• Reflexivity was always integral to Margaret Archer’s macro-sociology

• Why hasn’t Twitter/X died yet?

• My notes on Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion

• What need do conspiracy theories serve?

• The monster became self-conscious of its size and intoxicated by the belief in its own omnipotence

• Why digital elites are embracing Trump

• A relational theory of existential challenge

• Obsessional neurosis as private religion and the mediation of collective reflexivity by the internet

• Epistemic flooding

• In late modernity the signposts established by tradition are now blank

• Ticketmaster is the epitome of enshittification

• A Lacanian reading of digital elites

• “neologistic excess is an abuse of language that turns thought into a pile of words, into delirium”

• Am I a voluntarist about technology?

• Capaciousness as a sociological category

• Imagine being in lockdown and your country suffering a massive cyberattack

• Did ‘unconnected content’ ruin social media? The TikTokification of every social platform

• I was interviewed about the sociology of awkwardness for a French futures magazine

• Judith Butler’s notion of the phantasmatic scene and the epistemic chaos of platforms

• Trying too hard is symptomatic of a mind divided

• The enshittification of Grindr and the coming wave of platform addiction

• From art to entertainment to distraction to addiction

• The silent inner world

• What’s the opposite of flourishing? Languishing

• Setting your own technological rhythm

• There are too many identity labels being circulated too quickly

• What we need today is not a theory of a new age

• The manifest and latent function of online reviews

• Is digital distraction the 21st century equivalent of neurathemia?

• The impending reality of the digital daemon

• Is generative AI predicated on digital enclosure?

• A Lacanian spin on Margaret Archer’s concept of contextual incongruity: the meta-reflexive as hysteric

• Platform capitalism, historciality and Andrew Abbott’s sense of modernist temporal ontology

• Lacan on the biographical momentum of partial objects

• Hannah Arendt on machinic rhythms and their power to consume our autonomy

• The moral economy of automaticity: sociological and psychoanalytical perspectives

• What does it mean to be composed?

• The agonies of humiliation involved in submitting to contigency

• How platforms shape the parameters of agency

• The inner adult and the inner child

• Theorising permanent instability and volatility as necessary rather than contingent features of the environment

• Platform & agency: becoming who we are in a digital world

• From social media to generative media: a first lecture on my next project after Generative AI for Academics

• On returning to music

• What if we have achieved postcapitalism but it isn’t socialism?

• Alan Levinovitz on empowerment epistemology

• CfP: The future of conspiracy scholarship: New epistemologies and imaginaries

• Big Data, Critical Realism, Human Agency and the Future of the Social Sciences

• A list of human cognitive biases and the assumptions underpinning them

• The power of giving language to hidden things

• On learning what matters to us

• Why are conspiracy theories coalescing into a heterogenous world view?

• Shock as a narrative vacuum

• Maurizio Lazzarato’s a-signifying semiotics and the computational infrastructure of generative AI

• It’s all in the game though, right?

• On platform and agency

• The capacity of the algorithm to create monsters

• Techno-optimism as boomer dogma

• The ethical paralysis facing millennials

• Theory is most productive not when it gives the right answers but when it poses the right question

• Conversational AI as a tool for thinking-with rather than a technique for replacing our labour

• Generative AI as a source of practical knowledge

• What if those who lap up the eschatological enthusiasms of Left Behind and QAnon are in many cases survivors of their own chronic and acute disasters?

• Ontological and cultural humanism

• The ontology of the unconscious

• Personal change as paradigm shift