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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Fateful moments that might have been

  • Preparing to think in order to prepare to speak: from routine to challenge

  • From homo economicus to homo digitalis

  • What does it mean to claim people were ‘doing sociology’?

  • Digital social science as a meta-field

  • ‘Student Experience’ and the social ontology of the student

  • Collective action and the realisation of your own smallness

  • The intellectual adventure of slaying the neoliberal beast

  • CfP Changing Political Economy of Research & Innovation Workshop 2018

  • A call for sociological micro-fiction!

  • The dynamics of discipline formation

  • When sociologists meet organised politics

  • What the lost tradition of classical British social theory can teach us about the dangers of charismatic leadership

  • The Sociology of Ryan Air, or, when normativity fails to reproduce itself

  • Emerging technologies, academic celebrities and the social organisation of disciplines

  • Getting beyond pro and anti in our thinking about technology

  • Trump and the ascent of the spiralists

  • Post-Truth as Personal Incapacity

  • CfP: Social Theory in Information Systems Research

  • CfP: Articulating Voice

  • Ontological bias and social knowledge in a post-truth era

  • Proposal for a Concept Lab

  • Social ontology and the challenge of suitcase words

  • CfP: Digital transformation of social theory

  • Towards Common Process Understanding in Collective Welfare

  • The missing history of the practical intellectuals

  • Towards a cultural sociology of the toaster 

  • Margaret Archer as neo-classical British social theorist

  • Three discursive predicaments I wish there were terms for

  • Narrative as interface between the subjective and the objective 

  • CfP: What is universe? Communication, complexity, coherence

  • A renewed engagement with the past could be a powerful means through which the critical tradition in British sociology could fortify itself for a difficult future

  • In defence of the individual

  • Social acceleration and the possibility of the sacred 

  • Are some political tactics more adaptable to intensified social change than others? 

  • The Public Sociology of Patrick Geddes and Victor Branford

  • There once was a ‘sociology movement’: could there be one again?

  • The fox’s way of being-in-the-world

  • The Social Ontology of ‘Free’ and ‘Open’

  • How can Sociology be inspired by its own archive?

  • The sociology of quantitative methods in the U.K. 

  • Erving Goffman: the rag-and-bone man of Sociology

  • CfP: The Social Lives of Digital Methods

  • The acceleration of social theory

  • From cyberspace to constant connectivity: the social ontology of socio-technical change

  • What Happened? The end of modernisation

  • Mechanisms of normative change 

  • Daniel Bell, Transgression and the Alt-Right

  • Defensive Elites

  • Accounting for the distinctiveness of the contemporary age

  • The aestheticised mode of social theorising

  • Sociological micro-fiction

  • Five thoughts on abstraction

  • The uncoupling of transgression from progress

  • Some thoughts on the ontology of games 

  • The ascent of the spiralists

  • Critical Realism and Object-Orientated Philosophy on the Status of Objects

  • Archer and Harman on modes of reduction

  • Call for Participation: Sociology and Social Media, Problems and Prospects

  • The Surplus of Objects

  • Agnotology, Science and Public Engagement

  • The question of the human in philosophy of technology 

  • What does public sociology have to say about sociologists who are ‘merchants of doubt’?

  • Two modes for becoming who we are 

  • The relative value of journalism and social philosophy

  • From a politics of speed to a political sociology of speed

  • Political speeches, relational authoriality and fetishising ‘strong leadership’

  • Social morphogenesis and the limitations of political modelling 

  • On the Spiralists

  • CfP: ‘Social Research in a Sceptical Age’

  • Call for Participants: The Practice of Social Theory

  • What would a materialist phenomenology of ‘post-truth’ look like?

  • The Personal Morphogenesis of Francis Begbie

  • The causal powers of media

  • What does distraction mean for political theory and political philosophy?

  • How can Arendt and Heidegger help us think about distraction?

  • The Politics of Agency

  • Anticipatory Urgency

  • Marshall Berman on Jaytalking

  • Call for Papers: The Journal of Repressive Social Theory

  • How can the social sciences keep up with socio-technical change?

  • Social Morphogenesis: Five Years of Inquiring Into Social Change

  • “A new kind of intellectual”: Pierre Bourdieu’s tribute to Michel Foucault

  • Social Imaginaries: The re-invention of social research

  • The Sociological Review Annual Public Lecture 2017: Cities and the Political Imagination

  • The Ontology of Fake News

  • The Impact of Social Theory

  • Defensive Elites

  • Cities and the Political Imagination

  • The Technology of Intellectual Work

  • The Ontology of Fateful Moments

  • Margaret Archer and Bernard Lahire as post-Bourdieusian social theorists

  • Some really interesting theory reading lists

  • Pierre Bourdieu, liberal thought and the ontology of collectives

  • Pierre Bourdieu, post-war Algeria and the existential conditions for collective action

  • A conversation between myself and @benjamingeer about a Bourdieusian approach to understanding alt-academia

  • An STS approach to ‘post-truth’

  • Charles Taylor: Ways Democracy Can Slip Away

  • Epochal theorising and business bullshit

  • On Social Acceleration

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