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

  • A few sketchy thoughts on how theory is accelerating

  • A conversation between empirical and theoretical ontology

  • Experiments in everyday life

  • The analytical space where ‘publics’ meet ‘problems’: keeping it open rather than shutting it down

  • The object turn in the social sciences

  • Who needs actions when you got words?

  • The liquid powering liquid modernity

  • Twitter and the internal conversation

  • Becoming who we are 

  • The epistemology of apocalypse 

  • Critique as consumerism 

  • Game of Thrones: from sociological to psychological storytelling

  • To what extent are intellectuals responsible for how their ideas are taken up?

  • The strange fate of ‘culture’

  • The ontology of (digital) testing

  • The performance of critique and why it frustrates me 

  • You can’t have your ‘facts’ back

  • The consequences of our expectations

  • The sociology of expectations (and platform imaginaries)

  • Theorising as self-work: the case of heuristics

  • What social theorists and their diagrams can learn from cyberneticians and their machines

  • Organisational sociology and algorithms

  • A cybernetics of distraction?

  • Driving robots mad 

  • The strange performances of the brain

  • The ontological gap between entities and interaction

  • Cybernetics and the dual-edged sword of disciplinarity

  • Call For Blog Posts: Reflections On Doing Sociology Outside The Global North

  • Ontological veiling   

  • Big data and the future of sociological theory

  • Cybernetics as a way of life

  • Theorising the relationship between data and agency

  • Call for papers: literature and sociology

  • The Hegelian sociology of Gillian Rose

  • Algorithms and institutional isomorphism

  • Social theory as sociology’s meta-conversation

  • The ontology of toxicity

  • The tragedy of the academic commons: when abstraction makes us passive

  • The Cambridge approach to social ontology

  • Sociology and anarchism

  • How Should STS Address Inequality? As a Subject, a (Dis)Value)? Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

  • Who are the super-rich and what do they want?

  • Social Media, Global Social Theory and Sociological Activism: An Interview with Gurminder K. Bhambra

  • Why doesn’t technocrat have an antonym?

  • Towards a neo-Khaldunian digital sociology: @morteza_hm on the Bedouins of Silicon Valley

  • The intellectual legacy of Charles Taylor: securing the vantage point of (historical) philosophical anthropology

  • When sociology becomes a source of legitimation rather than critique: the case of Anthony Giddens

  • Social volatility and the shrinking time horizons of political life: the case of the Remain campaign’s war book

  • The social ontology of algorithms and the importance of ethnographic technique

  • What does it mean to talk about work as dehumanising? A critical realist perspective

  • Margaret Archer: The Catholic Church as a Social Movement

  • An introduction to Emmanuel Lazega’s neo-structuralism

  • Analogue and digital chronopower: the example of Trump university

  • Overcoming the micro/macro divide

  • The social ontology of trans-human life

  • Against spontaneous sociology: Michael Burawoy’s attempt to rescue Bourdieu from Matthew Desmond and what it means for public sociology

  • Sally Rooney on Theory Anxiety

  • Beyond fast and slow: temporal ontology in critical higher education scholarship

  • Debates about the nature of education

  • The origins of the micro/macro divide

  • The social origins of educational systems 

  • The Sociology of Escalation Effects

  • The Sociology of Awkwardness: Being (very) human in a digital age

  • Margaret Archer’s social theory as a revulsion in the fact of empiricsm

  • The Ontology of Software: From Batch Processing to Interactive Computing

  • The unraveling of factfulness and the political ontology of representation

  • The ideology of how ‘the world really is’

  • Reconciling the psychoanalytical and the reflexive 

  • Education Beyond Dispute: the work of Stafford Beer for Teaching and Learning

  • Stafford Beer, Reflexive Poise and Human Flourishing

  • The worldly intellectualism of Stafford Beer

  • The fragile crowd 

  • The globalisation of critical theory is inseparable from its Americanization

  • (Post)Humanism in the Accelerated Academy

  • The weaponisation of epistemology: strategy and tactics

  • The underdetermination of agency by architecture

  • The rightward drift of Slavoj Žižek

  • Against poststructuralism

  • The generational politics of critical theory

  • SRA Annual Conference 2018: Adapting to change – where next for social research?

  • CfP: Post-H(uman) index? Politics, metrics, and agency in the accelerated academy

  • The Foundations of British Sociology

  • Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

  • Workshop: The Foundations of British Sociology

  • The disjointed temporality of political life

  • The Sociological Review and the History of the Discipline

  • The Sociology of Stupid Assumptions

  • Nietzsche on the narrow chamber of human consciousness

  • Understanding the agency of people we disapprove of

  • The existential challenge of changing tempo

  • Defending the social at #undisciplining

  • Accelerating into the singularity 

  • Big data, human agency, critical realism and the future of the social sciences

  • Human agency beyond platform structuralism and platform voluntarism

  • Some brief thoughts on chronopolitics

  • The role of dichotomies in social theory

  • Expertise and the politics of discipline

  • CFP: Imagining Radical Futures, Princeton Oct. 5th

  • Barbara Adam on the practice of theorising

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