• Neo-structuralism and social media in higher education

• The tremendously efficient writing of Slavoj Žižek

• Why do academic celebrities self-plagiarise?

• The pleasures which superstar professors have access too

• Automation and the reproduction of knowledge

• Social media, attention economies and the future of the university

• The alliance between the billionaires and the thought leaders

• The cultural entrepreneurs behind your favourite thought leaders 

• The globalisation of critical theory is inseparable from its Americanization

• The generational politics of critical theory

• The incredible shrinking scope of the celebrity intellectual

• The ennui of the academic celebrity

• Academic Celebrities and the Transformation of Publishing

• A special @thesocreview feature on the rise of the Superstar Professor

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

• how to shift sociological product: lessons from the career of tony giddens