• 👀 Waiting for the Crash – Sketching the Enshittified Future of Large Language Models 

• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• 📖 Things I’ve read in 2026

• 🌕 You are the music while the music lasts

• Before Bourdieu, there was Orwell

• WordPress owns the Internet

• Why We Post: The Anthropology of Social Media

• Peter Thiel secretly backed Hulk Hogan

• Zizek on the impossibility of anarchism 

• How to move further from Mandela without becoming Mugabe

• The Thesis Whisperer: Starting an Academic Blog

• Social Media and Academic Labour, June 27th in Leeds

• Sublime imagined unity as a political factor

• Super-ego individualization

• Debt as an instrument of post-democratic control

• The Psychoanalytics of Temporising

• The paradox of personalisation 

• Freeing those who govern from the constraints of democracy

• Reclaiming ‘aspiration’ for the left 

• The lonely monads of digital capitalism

• The EU: a flawed democracy whose failures are fuelling the rise of fascism?

• The price fixing conspiracies of the platform economy 

• Call For Papers: The Precariat & The Professor

• Call for papers: everyday analysis 

• The Scale of Data Brokerage

• The Emergence of Digital Capitalism 

• Escaping the digital cage

• Data Fetishism

• The ontology of data

• Overlapping categories and the problem of abundance

• Coping with acceleration: triaging strategies and the new empiricism

• Workshop: Using the Morphogenetic Approach

• The death of cyberspace

• The myth of user generated content

• The misleading concept of ‘the blogosphere’

• Challenging Citizenship: Social Media and Big Data

• 2016 Challenging Media Landscapes conference, November 2016

• The Utopian Promise of Cyberspace

• Critiquing ‘virtuality’

• Places Still Available: The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

• Conceptualising ‘distraction’

• 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

• 19 interesting ways to communicate knowledge

• “They were stalking the corridors, the lecture rooms, the offices…”: open research, ethics and impact

• things I’ve been reading recently #22

• Culture and politics of data visualisation: a one-day conference, 11th October 2016, University of Sheffield

• Digital methods/data activism summer school

• Open research projects

• What’s it like to be a corporate executive receiving an order to cooperate with an authoritarian government?

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

• 28,100 journals publishing 2.5 million articles a year

• Before WhatsApp there was BBM

• The King of Kong: a documentary about celebrity gamers

• My highlights from #RPten (and the most interesting stuff I missed)

• How life coaching spreads in corporate cultures