• The social ontology of education

• On Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Education Ideal

• John Dewey, Habituation and Platform Socialisation

• Dewey on the over-socialised conception of ‘imitation’

• The socialising role of community

• How would John Dewey have understood the socialising influence of digital platforms?

• The Slow Cancellation of the Future

• The importance of a chart is inversely proportional to its necessity to the argument

• Being open to the world

• Post-pandemic reconstruction

• Call for papers: Special issue of Journal of Critical Realism on Critical Realism and Pragmatism

• New Book: Post-Human Futures

• Nick Land’s Poeticisation of Capital’s Obscenity

• Post-Pandemic Hedonism: Thoughts on Mark Fisher’s Final Book

• What does it mean to be partners-in-freedom?

• Hannah Arendt on Conspiracies

• Pragmatising Philosophy

• What do we mean by ‘post-pandemic’?

• The poetics of pandemics: why ‘living with covid’ gets squeezed out by ‘life after covid’

• Concepts for the new normal

• Sociology On and Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis: An Online Symposium

• The self under siege: the best introduction to modern continental philosophy I’ve encountered

• The missing skill of technological reflexivity

• Critical realism and digital social science

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

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

• The institutional health of Sociology in the UK

• The tremendously efficient writing of Slavoj Žižek

• Is Slavoj Žižek slowly becoming Christopher Hitchens?

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

• A note of caution about posthumanism in education

• Some critical thoughts about the post-digital

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

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

• Outflanking Platitudes: Theorising the Pandemic

• The light we steal when we learn

• Zygmunt Bauman’s early career as a professional ideologist

• The epochal theorising of Zygmunt Bauman

• The suspended futures of Covid-19

• Inhabited institutionalism

• Civic decline and the valorisation of debate

• The orthodox narrative of civic decline

• Time is a cycle, not a line

• Platform Epistemics, Slavoj Žižek and Digital Reflexivity

• What is participation?

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

• 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 is a stereotype?

• “The more closely you look at a word, the more distantly it stares back at you”

• Why I’m so fascinated by education

• Theoretical interventions as events

• To see the machine we need to dispense with the Weberian legacy on technology

• Ulrich Beck’s bleak vision of a future Europe battling against immigration

• Beck on two forms of social integration

• The patterns of life that modernity engenders can only be practiced by a small minority of the world’s population

• The uncanny remembrance of the non-human

• The materiality of resources and the social forms they give rise to

• The sociology of civilisational collapse

• Ian McEwan on the mundane reality of reflexivity

• The Isolation Pod: Theorising in/of Covid-19

• Žižek on Covid temporalities

• Panic and reflexivity

• Covid-19 and the impossibility of floating freely in our undisturbed balance

• The epochal sublime

• Covid and Social Acceleration

• Against the theoretical avant-garde, some thoughts against Rosi Braidotti’s PostHumanities

• What noisily calls itself philosophy

• The Anthropological Shock

• Cosmopolitanism as class project

• Philosophical problems as existential problems: the difficulty of Nietzsche’s internal conversations

• Transhumanism and Marxist

• Durkheim on bounding variety

• Durkheim on individualisation and the weakening of collective experience

• Durkheim on the origin of reflexivity

• Durkheim’s argument about social contagion is immensely relevant to contemporary discussions of ‘fake news’ and computational propaganda

• The widespread sense of homo distractus

• Durkheim on neuropathy and the inability to settle into a stable life

• The micro-foundationalism of Erich Fromm

• Encouraging a collective identity in the absence of organisational mechanisms

• Durkheim’s account of the boundary between the psychological and sociological

• Bernard Lahire’s philosophical sociology

• The place of ontological reasoning in platform studies

• Ivan Illich on the myth of limits

• The politics of being well-organised

• Political information cycles and the political economy of time

• Ontological junctures

• Upcoming Critical Realism webinars

• The Digital Condition: The Practical Order as Pivotal

• The situational geography of everyday life

• The impact of social theory

• The Political Economy of Publishing Social Theory

• Rethinking Empirical Social Science

• Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0

• Becoming ourselves through the media

• The political significance of realism

• What is an institution?

• The overaffectation of the crowd

• Knowing neoliberalism, or, why doesn’t talking about it make it better?

• A few sketchy thoughts on how theory is accelerating