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  • Denial and the Antinomies of (Post)Truth

  • pirate philosophy in (and for) the digital university

  • Pascalian Meditations on the Digital University

  • Devushkin as the Eviscerated Human

  • The Evisceration of the Human

  • Deadline soon! @TheSocReview ECR Essay Competition

  • a bleak social theory for bleak times

  • Some recent videos of Harmut Rosa talking about social acceleration

  • CfP: The Future Between Progress and Regression

  • Was Sloterdijk an early originator of contemporary right populism?

  • Carrying the weight of the world

  • Next week in Oxford: Digital Sociology v STS

  • Living with theoretical pluralism

  • Why are there 3 philosophy magazines but no sociology one?

  • Towards a sociology of Pikettyville

  • A conversation with Peter Walsh about Zygmunt Bauman, Academic Celebrity and Social Theory

  • Chronosolidarity

  • Out Now: Selected Papers of Margaret Archer

  • A conversation with Gary Hall about pirate philosophy, academic celebrity and social theory

  • Striving for a ‘rigorous’ politics

  • Digital Sociology vs STS

  • The pace of critique in a world of accelerating upheaval

  • The Sociology of Trump: An Initial Reading List

  • Towards a Pirate Sociology

  • The Relative Autonomy of Symbolic Mediation

  • The Philosophical Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

  • Cultural scaffolding for greedy social roles

  • Collapsing the parameters of our worlds

  • What’s the collective noun for a group of social theorists?

  • Liberation and coercion

  • Yanis Varoufakis on the Parallax Challenge

  • Practical Sociology: Agenda for Action

  • The acceleration of politics and the impossibility of theory

  • The necessity of selection

  • Ethical consumerism as self-exclusion

  • The Dystopic Turn in Social Science

  • The vexatious fact of society

  • The Individualisation of Utopia

  • The difference between philosophy and talk about philosophy

  • Colin Crouch on epochal theorising 

  • The Epistemological Obstacles to Understanding Social Movements

  • The Dispositions of the Metricised

  • The Antinomies of ‘Intelligence’

  • The sobered modernist perspective

  • Structural limits to self-control

  • The fetishisation of the event 

  • The colonisation of life by work

  • Fragile movements and their political cultures 

  • What is a ‘strike’ and what is a ‘riot’?

  • The Return of the Riot

  • The fantasistic political ontologies which emerge under post-democracy

  • Rhetorical rapture-races and contemporary fragile movements 

  • An infopolitical critique of lazy applications of ‘panopticism’

  • The Idiots Who Make History

  • Murmuration

  • Ford’s Sociological Department

  • Transformative Horizons

  • A couple of places left for the Morphogenetic Approach workshop on Tuesday @SocioWarwick

  • Three computational sociologies

  • Value and Values

  • What would experimental closure look like outside of a lab?

  • The Internal Conversations of Behavioural Scientists

  • Practical Sociology: Agenda for Action

  • Digital Social Science and the Challenge of Reflexivity

  • The Invention of Lifestyle

  • ‘Intelligence’ as an explanatory concept 

  • The Fragile Movements of Late Modernity

  • Sociology and Fiction: a @thesocreview Special Feature

  • Deleuzian populism

  • The threat of pseudo-activity

  • Before Bourdieu, there was Orwell

  • Zizek on the impossibility of anarchism 

  • Sublime imagined unity as a political factor

  • The Psychoanalytics of Temporising

  • Coping with acceleration: triaging strategies and the new empiricism

  • Workshop: Using the Morphogenetic Approach

  • Places Still Available: The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

  • Interested in the internal conversation? Come to this symposium @SocioWarwick on May 24th

  • The Great Divide: Sociology, Anthropology, and Race in France since Lévi-Strauss

  • Interested in the internal conversation? Come to this symposium @SocioWarwick on May 24th

  • The Accelerative Ethos of Steve Jobs

  • The Sociology of Patent Trolling

  • Symposium: Reorientating Sociological Thought

  • Workshop: Using the Morphogenetic Approach

  • The Discursive Preconditions for the Acceleration of Publishing, or, Why Scholasticism and Positivism are Now Everwhere

  • Computational Social Science and the Collapse of Sociology

  • The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

  • The Social Life of Theory: Partiality, Conflict and Innovation

  • Symposium: Reorientating Sociological Thought

  • Jeffrey Alexander on the Individualist’s Dillema

  • A Lockean case for the ownership of personal data 

  • What does Economic Sociology have to say about declining productivity?

  • ‘Economic Science Fictions’ – call for essays

  • Steve Fuller on information overload

  • Are you coming to @thesocreview’s Annual Lecture?

  • Workshop: Using the Morphogenetic Approach

  • Are you studying the internal conversation? Get in touch soon for a free workshop

  • Do we need to reorientate Sociological thought? Or are perpetual calls to do this part of the problem?

  • The Temporal Constraints of Consumption

  • Gorz’s concept of hygiene 

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