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  • Using LLMs to help you write papers doesn’t help you get them published

  • The Joy of Academic Writing in the Age of AI

  • The philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) on how ludicrous it would be to expect academics to publish papers every 6 months

  • Four vague accelerationist hypotheses about scholarly publishing

  • The reification of social change

  • Silicon Valley’s cult of work

  • Žižek on Covid temporalities

  • Covid and Social Acceleration

  • The Transformation of Higher Education: Acceleration, Platformisation and Digitalisation

  • The widespread sense of homo distractus

  • The politics of being well-organised

  • Political information cycles and the political economy of time

  • The acceleration of journalism

  • Why slowness and attentiveness aren’t the same thing

  • Fast movements struggle with slow issues 

  • The existential challenge of changing tempo

  • Accelerating into the singularity 

  • The (slow) private life of homo academicus

  • Social acceleration and the possibility of the sacred 

  • The Mediatization of Time

  • The acceleration of social theory

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

  • Anticipatory Urgency

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

  • On Social Acceleration

  • Moral Responsibility in an Age of Distraction

  • What is ‘the literature’?

  • Some thoughts on fast and slow science in the accelerated academy

  • Ambient intimacy and cultures of overwork

  • The acceleration of politics and the impossibility of theory

  • The emotional dimension of chronopolitics

  • UCU workload survey report

  • The threat of pseudo-activity

  • Coping with acceleration: triaging strategies and the new empiricism

  • The Accelerative Ethos of Steve Jobs

  • The Second Accelerated Academy

  • The Fracturing of Free Time

  • Against the ‘slow professor’

  • Henry Rollins on the pleasures of acceleration

  • stuck in the mess of life: anticipation and disappointment

  • The first year of the Accelerated Academy project

  • the peak experiences of intensified work

  • Page’s Law as a counter-point to acceleration theory

  • imagining an academy in which academics were paid not to write

  • the Japanese recovery of participatory Taylorism

  • the digitally-facilitated intensification of work

  • the acceleration of viruses and malware 

  • an introduction to social acceleration in 18 minutes

  • cognitive triage and the acceleration of design

  • the joys of being-in-the-zone

  • ten post docs (!) on temporality 

  • the intensification of work and the notion of work/life balance

  • the intensification of work and the competitive busyness of ceos

  • time use event in oxford

  • the acceleration of consumption 

  • pride and pleasure in acceleration 

  • the cognitive costs of escaping the filter bubble

  • Social Science Funding in the US potentially on the verge of being cut in half

  • Is it just managers who are heating up the floor to see who can keep hopping the longest?

  • Overcoming your modernist training for constant improvement, advancement, development and accumulation

  • Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 3

  • Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 2

  • Life in the Accelerated Academy, part 1

  • Heating up the floor to see who can keep hopping the longest

  • Who is this describing?

  • The businessman and the fisherman

  • CfP: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life, 2nd-4th December 2015, Prague

  • Things I’ve been reading recently #2

  • The Lure of Minimalism

  • The Pleasures of Speed

  • The Pleasures of Acceleration

  • Coping with Acceleration

  • Some things about the acceleration of higher education which I would like to understand more than I do

  • At the risk of sounding obsessive: Žižek is now releasing new books monthly

  • Life in the accelerated academy: how it’s possible for Žižek to publish 55 books in 14 years

  • Call for contributions: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life

  • Harmut Rosa on the logic of acceleration and the good life

  • Reflections on five years spent studying asexuality

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